"A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance."

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Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into any bookstore or library, calculate how many lifetimes the average person would need to read all the fiction contained therein. To think that one has anything to contribute, to any genre or tradition, takes genuine hubris.

— Laura Lippman