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> [It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/it-has-been-well-said-that-an-author-who-expects-results-from-a-first/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/815/anonymous-1_arizona_it-has-been-well-said-that-an-author-who_475341.jpg)

> [I was always attracted to taking a novel position, but one grounded in the materials I'd been given, not made up out of whole cloth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jed-s-rakoff/i-was-always-attracted-to-taking-a-novel-position-but-one-grounded-in/)

[Jed S. Rakoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jed-s-rakoff/)

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