Is any novelist going to recognize the moment when he or she has nothi…

Julian Barnes
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Is any novelist going to recognize the moment when he or she has nothing more to say? It is a brave thing to admit. And since as a professional writer you are full of anxiety anyway, you could easily misread the signs. ✨ Julian Barnes, Vanessa Guignery, Ryan Roberts (2009). Conversations with Julian Barnes, p.71, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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