"[A writer can] simply read and write joyfully during the small portion that he is allotted. There is..."

“[A writer can] simply read and write joyfully during the small portion that he is allotted. There is so much passion and wonder in today’s fiction; it is his fault, not that of the books, if he lets those things go unseen and unfelt.”

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Against Tim Parks’s ‘Death of the Novel’

Anaïs Nin put it best in her 1947 meditation on the future of the novel.

(via explore-blog)