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Philip Roth - The concerns of fiction, let it be said,...

The concerns of fiction, let it be said, are not those of a statistician - or of a public-relations firm. The novelist asks himself, "What do people think?"; the PR man asks, "What will people think?" (Philip Roth)

The concerns of fiction, let it be said, are not those of a statistician - or of a public-relations firm. The novelist asks himself, "What do people think?"; the PR man asks, "What will people think?"

Philip Roth

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