"To fight is to face death once more, perhaps the total annihilation of their kind. But to run... is that not also a kind of annihilation?"

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Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before.

— Andrew O'Hagan