
“Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.”
Variant: Sometimes I don't know whether Zelda and I are real or just characters in one of my novels.
http://www.imdb.com/7407796 IMDb
On confidence and self-perception whenever asked how she feels about her height.
Motto
“Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.”
Variant: Sometimes I don't know whether Zelda and I are real or just characters in one of my novels.
“The real plot in fiction parallels life in that it happens within the characters.”
Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview (2007)
"Journal Entries", p. 188
Memory and Dream (1994)
Context: I don't know why I care what people write about me after I'm dead, except that since I invest so much of my time telling the truth in my fiction, I'd hate to see someone play fast and loose with the pieces of my life. I don't care what they might think of me; but I don't want lies about my life used to invalidate the stories. My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped into my own.
On how she writes characters in “Motherhood and Migration: An Interview with Vanessa Hua on ‘A River of Stars’” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/motherhood-and-migration-an-interview-with-vanessa-hua-on-a-river-of-stars/ in Los Angeles Review of Books (2018 Sep 13)
Against Authority: Freedom and the Rise of Surveillance States (2014)
he had better quit.
Rex Stout
The New York Times, "Talk with Rex Stout"
[Often my characters—a Jesus, a Hector, a Gloria—will be bilingual, or if not bilingual at least know enough Spanish to throw words and phrases into conversation.]
On his characters being bilingual in “In-depth Written Interview with Gary Soto” https://www.teachingbooks.net/interview.cgi?a=1&id=47 in Teaching Books (2007 Aug 29)
“… [some code] looks disgusting, but that's life. (1993/6)”
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