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I like to have the freedom a novelist has.
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The speaker values the freedom a novelist has—the ability to decide how a story unfolds and what it contains. The quote expresses a personal preference for creative choice and room to shape ideas. It does not specify what the speaker wants to create; it simply identifies a novelist’s freedom as something desirable.
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