#novelist

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists. ↗

— Philip Roth

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Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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