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The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.

Source: On The Contrary, 1961.
-- Mary McCarthy, (Jun 21 1912-1989), US novelist, critic; She was noted for witty acerbic novels and writings about art and politics; wrote The Company She Keeps, 1942 and How I Grew, 1987.

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