"Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum."

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"The Diagnosis" is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it... there was so much I wanted to do with the book. I was extremely insecure about it for several years. Just didn't know whether I would finish the book much less for it to come close to what I intended. I think that for any novel you never know exactly how the book is going to turn out...

— Alan Lightman