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David Foster Wallace
This sort of oddity is, in fact, a frequent problem in reviewing "genre fiction," which is a type of narrative it's usually fair to call "the sort of thing someone who likes this sort of thing is apt to like."
Ben Marcus
Maybe your real life is everything you don't know about, ideas and feelings you haven't confirmed or even imagined yet. The writing is instantly more powerful if there is an act of discovery on the writer's part as well.
Milorad Pavic
I am not sure whether you can name as a work of art something that brings order into the chaos that surrounds you. I never wanted to bring order into something that I considered the work of God. In fact, I want to express this chaos through my books. Nothing else. For me that is enough.