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" Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others. "
Others
Revealed
Ways
" I guess if life were fair, people who led decent lives would be rewarded, and people who led indecent lives would not be rewarded. "
Life
Decent
Fair
" I guess I'm struck all the time by how outrageously wrong life is. There are times I can't stand to read the newspapers. It makes me insane. "
Me
Life
Wrong
" I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating characters in a novel is like shooting at clay pigeons and missing, and then missing more productively as the narrative continues. "
Creating
Understanding
Grow
" We lived on a farm outside a town of about 900 people. My father was the principal of the elementary school. It was a typical Southern town - there are a lot of churches, and it's dry. "
Father
Farm
People
" Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction. "
Still
Faith
Nice
" You have to avoid caricature, at the one end of the spectrum, and sentimentality, at the other; which is not to say that such characters shouldn't be funny part of the time, or that their actions shouldn't evoke genuine feeling. "
Funny
Feeling
End
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