One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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