Jonathan Franzen's 10 Rules for Novelists | Literary Hub

Thu, 22/11/2018 - 12:01pm — Chris Holifield

19 November 2018

The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.

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Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.

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