Sometimes I meet a person who says " Ive had so many iing experiehat I write lots of books about them." I think Ive heard quite a few people say the same thing especially since I came here. This doeshat Ameris say such a thing, but that many Japanese living in America often do. What they say might be probably true, because its quite challenging to live away from their home try, and they must have entered various kinds of exg happenings in this try. Its quite natural that they should have a strong wish to tell their story to someone else.
Of course, I dont know if they are really going to write their own novels someday. But I only say this after all; despite the background as a writer who has written quite a number of novels so far, Ive almost never had any "truly exg" is in my private life. No doubt I might have had somethiing as a person living more than 40 years, such as meeting a strange and mysterious person or being greatly shocked by a sudden ge of destiny. Some memory, I t tell you what it is though, makes me smile and some still makes me so sore. Thrilling things once quivered me with excitement. heless I guess you must also have gohrough such things as I have experienced in my life. Ive never met anyone who be said to have experienced "su unbelievable happening as no one ever had even in this large world." If I were quite a strao writing novels and asked if I declare to people that "Ive got so much stock of iing topiy writing, " then my ao this question will be "No." Definitely "No." What I could do is just fess holy that "My life was somewhat iing in its way, but not iing enough to write a novel about it."
For all this, in a very rare occasioumble upon people who entered incredible experiences in this world. I like their story telling since a boy, and I often ask them to tell their own episode. I have no idea of using their story as a subjey novel, but I just feel like listening to them. Various tales exist; some of them are stunning, moving, heartily laughable, and chillih fear. Their narrative is sometimes so enting as to make me fet to go to bed. It is true that "Fact is strahan fi. " But it is not always true that the person, who has gohrough su excitement, write a novel as stimulating as his experiehere might be a writer like Jack London (an Ameriovelist 1878-1916) who makes up extraordinarily iing books from his plentiful, extraordinary experiences, but judging from my knowledge, such a is rather exceptional.
Though this is my private opinion, people are ined to be captured by the keen sense of helplessness while actually writing them down ohey suffer overwhelming experiences. Painful is the stress when one ot reproduce or vey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what hes experienced so intensely. In my case, the stronger is the iion to "write about a particular subje a particular way," the harder it bees to start writing and to express myself. This stress somewhat resembles the irritation one feels when he ot describe to another person what he experienced so vividly and realistically in his dreams. All words I use to narrate my feeling of the moment fail incessantly to describe what I wish to, and then they begin to betray me.
To the trary, there are some people, despite their lack of experiences, who find out something funny and something pitiful in a trivial i from their unique viewpoint which is quite different from that of others. They recreate their findings into a different