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If the average novel is like a detective's report, then it is drab and tedious. A detective's report is written in the detached tone of the one who delivers the information to the listener. The difference between this tone and that of the novel is that the author of the detective's report is telling someone else what happened, while the writer of a novel is creating something he has already experienced. This means that an author is not writing about what he knows but is merely relating what his characters experience.
Source: The Threecornered World
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