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Continue to ChatThe only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort of second-class historian of the age he lives in. The "reality" he missed by writing about imaginary people, he gains by being able to build a reality more nearly out of his own factual experience than a plain historian or biographer can. - John Dos Passos from https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/the-only-excuse-for-a-novelist-aside-from-the-entertainment-and-vicarious-living-his-books-give-the-people-who