That novelists are especially knowledgeable about love – that the knowledge comes with the territory so to speak – could be said to be as true as the claim that bankers are especially well qualified to run banks well. Which, of course, they aren’t. Oh, they certainly are qualified to run banks – they know how to be boss, how to climb the corporate ladder and fight internal power struggles on the way up, and then how to keep their enemies down once they are on top. But managing the institution for solidity and profits are quite another matter.
Likewise with novelists: they know how to write novels. Whether the novels are in any way a true depiction of life is another matter altogether.
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