"You learn different things through fiction. Historians are……" — A. S. Byatt

"You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things."

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