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I’ve understood for a long time that it’s pointless to try to imagine that or even to fantasise what you would like to happen to your books. You have no control. Remember Dickens and Macready wanting to revive Shakespeare for the Victorians? If Shakespeare can fall by the wayside, so can anyone. Your books have their own life. Whatever they do when they go out into the world, they dont belong to you anymore. You can hope for the best, but it’s not for you to say. So I say: go for it. That’s why I keep at it. I’m sending that message in a bottle out on to the river, hoping it finds its reader. And that is all you really need to have for your book: just one reader out there who loves it. —Jane Smiley
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 17:19:52 +0000

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