Ayana Mathis Quotes About Character
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I really, deeply believe in the primacy of character. I believe that my job as a writer is to put a believable human being on a page.
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Voice isn't fixed or unmalleable, it adapts to the characters you are creating and the story being told. I suppose in some way that's true in life - a little flexibility goes a long way.
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I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access.
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I couldn't imagine a book with many characters in it and one of them not being gay. It would have felt like a glaring and problematic omission for me. But I also wanted to write that character as a person, not just a gay person.
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