"What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information."
"You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make sure you're responsible for it."
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Source: Robert Stone (1997). “Dog Soldiers”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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