“Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page.”
–Eudora Welty
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Plus, a bonus quote:
“I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.”