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“Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly.”

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Book:The Human Script

Source: The Human Script

“As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.”

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Book:The Human Script

Source: The Human Script

“But after the war, when editors like Martin Durk came to prominence by trumpeting the timely death of the novel, Parish opted for a reflective silence. He stopped taking on projects and watched with quiet reserve as his authors died off one by one--at peace with the notion that he would join them soon enough in that circle of Elysium reserved for plot and substance and the judicious use of the semicolon.”

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Book:Rules of Civility

Source: Rules of Civility

“Much has been made about the death of the novel and the end of literature as it’s seen to be assailed by technology, by the web, by the many and varied new forms of entertainment and culture. I don’t share that pessimism because I think it is one of the great inventions of the human spirit.”

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Author:Richard Flanagan