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When i'm writing, especially when i'm writing in first person, i don't think about the characterization, or how they are going to express themselves, i just express my own approach to these things. i think most writers can never divorce themselves from their private lives and personas; they are the ones that are writing. and the more they remove themselves from their own persona, the more, perhaps, mechanical the work becomes.
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When I'm Writing, Especially When I'm Writing

Richard Matheson
When i'm writing, especially when i'm writing in first person, i don't think about the characterization, or how they are going to express themselves, i just express my own approach to these things. i think most writers can never divorce themselves from their private lives and personas; they are the ones that are writing. and the more they remove themselves from their own persona, the more, perhaps, mechanical the work becomes.
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