You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.
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A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever.
I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.
You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.
You can't die with an unfinished book.
Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.
There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.