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“Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being.”
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“The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.”
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“Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.”
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“Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it."
[Q&A with Larry McCaffery, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 1993, Vol. 13.2]”
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[Q&A with Larry McCaffery, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 1993, Vol. 13.2]”
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“I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.”
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