"In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are."

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If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest.

— Karen Armstrong