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Novel Quotes by Jonathan Dee
- Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.
- What could be more boring than a novel that tells you how to think about everything that happens in it?
- I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an apartment, I had…
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