"I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."

Fiction, Newspapers

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"I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."

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"But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended."

John Green, American Author

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"In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundreds."

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