I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than to those of 'real' life. A novelist is someone who confuses his own life with that of his characters.

Alain RobbeGrillet
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I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than to those of 'real' life. A novelist is someone who confuses his own life with that of his characters. That is to say, a novelist creates a story that is more beautiful and more memorable than reality itself. In this quote, the author, Leo Tolstoy, has given us the key to understanding why we should write novels.

The truth of the matter is that we should write novels because our lives are not as interesting as the lives of our favorite authors. Whenever we read a novel, we can escape from our everyday life and live the life of one of the characters within it. We can be transported to a different world – a world full of magic – by reading a good book.

If you want to cheat fate, find a good book and read it thoroughly. By doing this, you will have cheated fate and you will have created your own novel!

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