‘However intimate someone is, people are closed off from us. We don’t really know what they’re thinking, but you do know what they’re thinking in a novel.’
William Boyd talks to t5m about the power of the novel as a tool for in-depth critique of society. While an autobiography may recount facts and events in a person’s life, only a novel can truly account for how that person is feeling, what it is they are thinking.
‘The power of a novel resides in it’s ability to explain ourselves to each other far better than anything else.’
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