A Quote by Lev Grossman
It seems to me that the novel as a medium has a very low signal-to-noise ratio. By which I mean: there are a lot of novels published, but the vast majority of them don't represent major contributions to the medium.
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Are you trying to tell all of us we have a bad signal-to-noise ratio?
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