Do Novelists Need To Cite Sources?

“Should a novel end with a bibliography? And if it does, is it pomposity or an effort to come clean about one’s sources? …Even a thorough bibliography will not protect a novelist against baseless charges of plagiarism founded on a narrow understanding of how the creative imagination works. [But] the only real risk [in having] a bibliography for a novel is that it will come to be a kind of obligatory disclosure.”