“I always play with everybody,” said Honoré. “It is my vocation. God put me on the earth to do with people what cats do to mice. Play with them, chew the last bit of life out of them, them pick them up in my mouth and drop them on people’s doorsteps. That is the business of literature.”
Orson Scott Card Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Chapter 6.
- work
- Heartfire (1998)
- year
- 1998
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