Literature is a source of pleasure, he said, it is one of the rare inexhaustible joys in life, but it's not only that. It must not be dissociated from reality. Everything is there. That is why I never used the word fiction. Every subtlety in life is material for a book. (...) Literature informs, instructs, it prepares you for life.
- p.150 [The Novel Bookstore]
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