Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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Vincent Canby Quote
“Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.”
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