In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. ~Martin Amis
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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