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The thing that makes a good book great is the fact that it is able to tell its own story. The book doesn’t need to be told by an author, but rather the author needs to let the story tell itself. Authors are often writers of their own stories. They can be writers who start with their experiences and find themselves in the characters they create.
Sometimes, authors are writers of experiences that had nothing to do with them personally. The thing that makes a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe.
Source: Around The Day In Eighty Worlds
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