"I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged."

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Source : Teju Cole (2016). “Known and Strange Things”, p.241, Faber & Faber

David Guterson

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