Definition of "paperiness" []

• The property of being papery, having paperlike properties (noun)

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• "Once, at a Milford Conference several decades ago, I got in a long and heated argument with two New Wave writers who put forward the proposition that since fiction is not real, it should not pretend to be real, that good fiction is all about the words, that stories should celebrate their "paperiness" the same way abstract art celebrates its two-dimensionality, as opposed to earlier styles of painting that tried to create the illusion of three dimensions."
• "I certainly don't like stories that celebrate their paperiness."