Sunday, December 12, 2010

WORD CRAFT: When Clarity Isn't a Virtue

"Characters let me know they're becoming real when they start surprising me. Keep them one-dimensional and the deadliness of total control is yours. Give them many dimensions--details suggestive of rich inner lives--and a certain wildness takes hold."
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein in the Wall Street Journal, December 11-12, 2010.

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