Suddenly, she heard a loud bang, a thump and a scream that caused her to jump from the bed. The hair on the back of her neck stood straight up and her body became one big goosebump.
There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children__ book. In adult literary fiction, stories are there on sufferance. Other things are felt to be more important: technique, style, literary knowingness_ The present-day would-be George Eliots take up their stories as if with a pair of tongs. They__e embarrassed by them. If they could write novels without stories in them, they would. Sometimes they do. We need stories so much that we__e even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won__ supply them. We all need stories, but children are more frank about it.
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There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children__ book. In adult literary fiction, stories are there on sufferance. Other things are felt to be more important: technique, style, literary knowingness_ The present-day would-be George Eliots take up their stories as if with a pair of tongs. They__e embarrassed by them. If they could write novels without stories in them, they would. Sometimes they do. We need stories so much that we__e even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won__ supply them. We all need stories, but children are more frank about it.
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