No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.

Ishmael Reed
No one says a novel has to be one thing....
No one says a novel has to be one thing....
No one says a novel has to be one thing....
No one says a novel has to be one thing....
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We may be told what our book should be, but if we are successful, it will be something else. It will bring us to tears at times, send us into fits of laughter, have us thinking about it for days on end.

Source: Yellow Back Radio Brokedown

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