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In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.

Cynthia Ozick
Lying, Reading, Promise
Cynthia Ozick (1996). “A Cynthia Ozick Reader”, p.311, Indiana University Press
In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.