Donna Tartt Quotes on Character
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Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.
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For a novelist to create character, I think, takes a sharp objective eye but also an intuitive intelligence, a receptiveness, a wilingness to make oneself blank in order to percieve things as they actually are.
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I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
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The trick of creating character is to try to see all people, even unsympathetic ones, without projecting one's own personality and values on them.