on September 12," Martin Amis wrote, "all writers on earth were considering the course that Lenin urged on Maxim Gorky--a change of occupation." Writers, said Jay McInerney, were flung into "a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing". Ian McEwan felt the whole art of fiction had been trivialised by reality--he found it "wearisome to confront invented characters". Don DeLillo also saw in the act itself something grander and greater than the mere novel, something that usurped the novelist's place in the world. "There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to."from Bryan Appleyard: from The Sunday Times: The Art of 9/11
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