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I don't want my novel to be like Madame Bovary, finely crafted with the life edited out of it. I want my novel to be like a friend telling me a story -- so we go off on thoughts; that's the way it is.
Source: Seeking that Tama-Friendly Audience, by Elizabeth Mitchell; found at www.eye.net/Arts/Books/1994/bo0331a.htm.
-- Tama Janowitz, (Apr 12 1957-____), US novelist; She is the best-selling author of Slaves of New York, 1986; starred in the first literary video on MTV, A Cannibal in Manhattan, 1987.