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Our task as fiction writers isn't just to report something that didn't really happen. We have to give what we write a sense of reality. The tool of our tradition is language.

Alice McDermott

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Unsere Aufgabe als Literaturautor besteht nicht nur darin, etwas zu berichten, was nicht wirklich passiert ist. Wir müssen dem, was wir schreiben, ein Gefühl der Realität geben. Das Werkzeug unserer Tradition ist die Sprache.

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