Much has been made about the death of the novel and the end of literature as it’s seen to be assailed by technology, by the web, by the many and varied new forms of entertainment and culture. I don’t share that pessimism because I think it is one of the great inventions of the human spirit.

~ Richard Flanagan

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Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly.

~ Johnny Rich

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As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.

~ Johnny Rich

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