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A novel is a dream in pill format

said by Tamir Barzilai

“The best fiction-making machine that we have is our mind when we go to sleep at night. You're building worlds and stories every single night, and a novel is just that same thing in a pill format.”

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the realm of dreamsEp 4 · with Samantha Chung
Listen at 20:57 Read it in the transcript

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Tamir Barzilai

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Fiction vs. non-fiction

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