>> i will say i consciously wanted this book to be a modern take on that kind of 19th century novel where you do go into a small society and you really analyze and anatomize that tiny society, so that is great that people would say, you know, they would recognize i am trying to write in that tradition. >> rose: wright. >> and there is a difference between that and me sitting there thinking, now who would i like to be paired to. >> rose: that's why i asked the question the way i did. >> who, no, no. >> i think it is -- >> rose: do you think of yourself as dickins? >> no. >> rose: of course not. >> i don't get that question but i also think that -- i do genuinely think that if you are -- if you are sitting there thinking, now whom would i most like to be compared to, you are wasting your time, just get on and do the work. >> rose: yes but who are you

kind of comparisons, dickins and elliott and that kind of thing, my point is not if you think think of yourself as those but my point is, what kind of acknowledgment and appreciation would satisfy you the most? >> my god. >> rose: because you -- >> i think it is very dangerous for a writer to start thinking in those terms, i think -- i really mean that, this isn't forced modesty or i mean -- >> rose: you don't seem like a person with false modesty. >> i am enormously flattered anyone would mention those names to me. >> rose: i know. >> i will say i consciously wanted this book to be a modern take on that kind of 19th century novel where you do go into a small society and you really analyze and anatomize that tiny society, so that is great that people would say, you know, they would recognize i am