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The Goldfinch
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“To find out what a story's really about,' the Librarian said, 'you don't ask the writer. You ask the reader.”
Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose

Eimear McBride
“I'm not lost. Or not lost much. Lonely. It is that and I don't know what to do.”
Eimear McBride, The Lesser Bohemians

Sarah Perry
“William Ransome and Cora Seaborne, stripped of code and convention, even of speech, stood with her strong hand in his: children of the earth lost in wonder.”
Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent

Hilary Mantel
“[as a writer] you take up a life in your imagination, in which you can live all the other parts of yourself that you didn't become. And you can live in all the eras; the fact that you happened to be born in a certain place, in a certain dictate - the imagination doesn't accept these limitations.”
Hilary Mantel

“Did you ever want to be a writer?” “No,” she said, and she would have told him. “I only wanted to be a reader.”
Ann Patchett, Commonwealth

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