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Rather than a teaching tool, i think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. a witnessing entity? what is that? i just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.
-Lorrie Moore
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Rather Than A Teaching Tool, I Think

Lorrie Moore
Rather than a teaching tool, i think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. a witnessing entity? what is that? i just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.
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The book is finished by the reader. a good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences. every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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It's very bad to write a novel by act of will. i can do a book of nonfiction work that way - just sign the contract and do the book because, provided the topic has some meaning for me, i know i can do it. but a novel is different. a novel is more like falling in love. you don't say, 'i'm going to fall in love next tuesday, i'm going to begin my novel.' the novel has to come to you. it has to feel just like love.
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Another reason i think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. in a film, you are presented with someone else's imagination exactly bodied out. the marvelous thing about a novel is that every reader will imagine even the very simplest sentence slightly differently.
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