Decipher the Stitching

“I don’t know who said that novelists read other novels only to see how they’re written. I believe it’s true. We aren’t content with the secrets exposed on the front of the page, but have to turn it over, to decipher the stitching. In some impossible-to-explain way we take the book apart into its essential pieces and put it back together again once we know the mysteries of its personal clockwork.”

— Gabriel García Márquez, The Scandal of the Century

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