Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces. – Allegra Goodman

I want my stories to move people…to feel some kind of reward from the writing. – Alice Munroe

Let an author so tell his tale as to touch his reader's heart and draw his tears, and he has, so far, done his work well. – Anthony Trollope

Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces. – Allegra Goodman

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