One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.
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Nationality: Australian Type: Novelist Born: February 7, 1943 |
“This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.”
“If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.”