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  • John Gardner, “On Becoming a Novelist”


    “We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images – a dog hunting through garbage cans, a plane circling above Alaskan mountains, an old lady furtively licking her napkin at a party.




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