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  1. Gustave Flaubert _ Madame Bovary

    Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures. It mingles with the characters, and it seems as if it were yourself palpitating beneath their costumes.
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  2. L.M. Montgomery _ Anne of the Island

    I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun rise and set in the usual quiet way without much fuss over the fact. If I had to have villains at all, I'd give them a chance, Anne--I'd give them a chance. There are some terrible bad men the world, I suppose, but you'd have to go a long piece to find them...But most of us have got a little decency somewhere in us. Keep on writing, Anne.
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  3. Rebecca McNutt _ Super 8: The Sequel to Smog

    Just because something isn't good doesn't mean it's bad.
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  4. Ernest Hemingway _ Death in the Afternoon

    When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
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  5. Milan Kundera _ The Unbearable Lightness of

    As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about.
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