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Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.
Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am.
In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.
I am trying to be a good person. I am trying to be myself, and if nobody likes me for me, that is their problem.
I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.
I must return to my old comrades of the Great War - to the brown, the treeless, the flat and grave-set plain of Flanders - to the rolling, heat-miraged downlands of the Somme - for I am dead with them, and they live in me again.
I am pretty sure I will never get a better character name than Japonica Fenway.
