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If Any Art Form Can Accommodate Contemporary Culture, It's The Novel. It's So Malleable - It Can Incorporate Essays, Poetry, Film. Maybe The Challenge For The Novelist Is To Stretch His Art And His Language, To The Point Where It Can Finally Describe What's Happening Around Him.

There Is A Set Of Balances And Rhythms To A Novel That We Can't Experience In Real Life. So I Think There Is A Sense In Which Fiction Can Rescue History From Confusion.

There's A Moral Force In A Sentence When It Comes Out Right. It Speaks The Writer's Will To Live.

In The American Soul There Is A Lonely Individual Standing In A Vast Landscape.

What Terrorists Gain, Novelists Lose.