Found in my electronic chapbook.

We cannot control how the reader will receive our fictional message, nor should we be able as writers to assert such control. The best we can do, I believe, is write carefully and as honestly as we can and let the reader make of our work what he will. If we write well, enough people will get enough of the message. p. 196

From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block.

I wrote 952 words yesterday morning and my total word count is now 39,624.

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