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The quote contrasts fiction with essays and suggests that essay writing depends on real-life experience and attention to the world. It also implies that holding a full-time job can make fiction writing harder to sustain.
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Originally said in English.
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Books by Sloane Crosley
The clasp
2015
I was told there'd be cake
2008
How did you get this number
2010
Look alive out there
2018