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Contrary to popular belief, writers are very sociable.
They do not spend their lives walled up in a maid's room, or cloistered at the top of a Lozère mansion, with the icy January wind as their only friend.
On the contrary, they attend book fairs and festivals, sign their texts, are invited for meetings in bookstores or schools... Always, they embody a separate function, halfway between the sorcerer and the priest.
They put the unspeakable into words.
They are not afraid of the unspeakable, since they transform it into literary material.
There is a certain magic around them.
This probably explains the somewhat strange reactions they provoke.
Thus, crime fiction authors say that, during fairs, readers often offer them coffins, knives or murdered dolls like the victim in their latest books.
Because, a best-selling author tells me:
“He has always…
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