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> [I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philipp-meyer/i-thought-that-i-would-have-a-huge-literary-novel-coming-out-when-i/)

[Philipp Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philipp-meyer/)

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> [When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-york/when-you-get-inside-a-literary-novel-you-feel-that-the-author-more/)

[Peter York](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-york/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea5/peter-york-10981_book_when-you-get-inside-a-literary-novel-you_1021273.jpg)

> [“If fast-paced entertainment is not among the pleasures generally offered by the literary novel, other pleasure often abound: a richness of language,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-henkin/if-fast-paced-entertainment-is-not-among-the-pleasures-generally/)

[Joshua Henkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-henkin/)

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> [The most important thing for me is realism. I don't like writing which does somersaults on the page, and I'm no great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-hornby/the-most-important-thing-for-me-is-realism-i-don-t-like-writing-which/)

[Nick Hornby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-hornby/)

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> [Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-johnson/imagine-a-world-in-which-no-writer-has-written-a-literary-novel-in/)

[Adam Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-johnson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dcd/adam-johnson-7721_about_imagine-a-world-in-which-no-writer-has-w_3207046.png)

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