It was not Monsieur Arouet, but a colleague of his-a lady novelist-who remarked to me once that writing novels was a cannibal's art, in which one often mixed small portions of one's friends and one's enemies together, seasoned them with imagination, and allowed the whole to stew together into a savory concoction.
( Diana Gabaldon )
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