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Author Knows Quotes by Pat Barker
- Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in fiction is when…
- What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
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- Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in… — Pat Barker
- What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do. — Pat Barker