A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)
Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them.
A detective digs around in the garbage of people's lives. A novelist invents people and then digs around in their garbage.