Monday, September 8, 2008

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. If a writer can make people live there may be no great characters in his book, but it is possible that his book will remain as a whole; as an entity; as a novel.


Ernest Hemingway. Death in the Afternoon. Simon & Schuster. 1932. p.191

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