"We read to know that we are not alone."
"Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form: not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living."
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Source: A class divide by William Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2011.
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