Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
“As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.”
“Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit.”