I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making out that they are thick. (Graham Joyce)

I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making out that they are thick.

Graham Joyce

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