The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero. (Mary McCarthy)

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.

Mary McCarthy

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