• Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

• Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.

• What is literature but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the Universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought.'

          — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

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