“I still think novels are much more interesting than poems – a novel is so spreading, it can be so fascinating and so difficult. I think they were just too hard for me. I’ve said somewhere that novels are about other people and poems are about yourself. I think that was the trouble, really. I didn’t know enough about other people, I didn’t like them enough.”
– Philip Larkin, “An Interview with the Observer,” Required Writing
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