Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write most 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, One Writer's Beginnings, 1984
Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings, 1984
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