"All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice."

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"All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice."

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"But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It's fun to give these people voices."

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"What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him that clearly, then I can write about him."

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"Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities."

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"Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do."

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"There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working."

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"Growing age can kill the beauty, not the style."

"He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college-age villain was wearing to Harvard this year."

"However strange your style may seem to others, never mind, because it is your style!"

"Coco Chanel used to talk about wearing more than one string of pearls. Why wear one if you can wear two, or something to that effect. I think that one string of pearls is just fine. But that's because my pearls are black, hers were white."

"It's not my accent, but my brevity makes me stylish."

"Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style."

"Have the nature of a dervish: then wear a stylish cap."

"Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed."

"A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style."

"Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions."

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"But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It's fun to give these people voices."

"What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him that clearly, then I can write about him."

"Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities."

"Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do."

"Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer."

"I do hope to bring Jane Whitefield back before too long."

"There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working."