Learning to Write XXI

4th February 2007 with 0 Comments

I don’t believe that anyone created a character from a handful of dust. It would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to create someone who bore no resemblance to a person that the writer had ever met or read about or heard about or had access to in some form or other. That is not [...]

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