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‘The challenge of flowing in one continuous outpouring of language in a novel is my killer.’

Yiyun Li | First Sentence

‘But for her, and perhaps for many, the solidity of an invented life is not trustworthy.’

‘You can’t remember the precise moment when you understood that you were a Jew.’

An essay by Paul Auster.

‘There should be a special term for abandoned stories, and another for the strange limbo in which their occupants live.’