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Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don’t like it.

Umberto Eco
Thinking, Novelists, Biased
"Umberto Eco, The Art of Fiction No. 197". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.theparisreview.org. Summer 2008.
Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don’t like it.