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Does Quotes by Walter Kirn
- Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it…
- Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe. It hardly matters,…
- Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones…
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