"You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that."

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My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.

— Jonathan Safran Foer