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I’ve thought about the domination of the literary arts by theory over the last 25 years — which I detest – and it’s as if you have to be a critic to mediate between the author and the reader and that’s utter crap. Literature can be great in all ways, but it’s just entertainment like rock’n’roll or a film. It is entertainment. If it doesn’t capture you on that level, as entertainment, movement of plot, then it doesn’t work. Nothing will come out of it. The beauty of the language, the characterization, the structure, all that’s irrelevant if you’re not getting the reader on that level – moving a story. If that’s friendly to readers, I cop to it.
-T.C. Boyle
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