...Characters, Elizabeth Bowen once said, are not created by writers. They pre-exist and they have to be found. If we do not find them, if we fail to represent them, the fault is ours. It must be admitted, however, that finding them is not easy. The condition of human beings has perhaps never been more difficult to define...

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Unexpected intrusions of beauty. That is what life is. (Herzog)

You never have to change anything you get up in the middle of the night to write.