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Continue to ChatObviously cheap sentimentality isn't something any good novelist wants to traffic in, but I think it's a problem if you consider it to be the most egregious of all creative sins. I think it's a problem if you consider it the thing to be avoided at all cost. I think it's a problem of you're not willing to risk the consequences of that kind of emotionalism under any circumstances. Then you wind up in the cul-de-sac of irony. - Steve Erickson from https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/obviously-cheap-sentimentality-isn-t-something-any-good-novelist-wants-to-traffic-in-but-i-think-it-s-a