Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.
AKHIL SHARMAErnest Hemingway has been the most important influence on me as a writer. But at a certain point as a writer,
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Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn’t. The fact that something is true in the real world should not lend authority to it in fiction.
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I need to tell the things that are important but which don’t make sense in terms of the narrative, things that would destroy symmetry or narrative pace. This is my personal belief about what it means to write nonfiction.
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To me exposition always contains tenderness.
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I can’t have composite characters. I can’t attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken.
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