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.
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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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To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.
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So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.
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I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.
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