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It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.

Zadie Smith
Book, People, Telling The Truth
"On the beginning" by Zadie Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2006.
It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.