It can be anything it wants to be
11th August 2016 | for Creatives | novel writing, writing, creative freedom, Ishmael Reed |
"No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o'clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons."
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