"The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he is reading a book."

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The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It's a thing of discovering. That's when writing is really working. You're on the trail of something and you don't quite know what it is.

— Sam Shepard