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We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an au...more

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All these uses a valid; all these reading of the book are "correct". For all these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators...more

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There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.

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There's always moral instruction whether the writer inserts it deliberately or not. The least effective moral instruction in fiction is that which is ...more

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The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.

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We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their...more

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As a child of privilege, no one is your friend. They will claim to be your friends, they will laugh at your jokes and invite you to their parties, but...more