Interviews & Posts Tagged ' character '

• March, 2009 A Study in Character: Dedra Johnson on the “Real” Voice in Fiction

  Tags: character, childhood, fiction, narrator
  Published in Interviews

  

  “I’ve always liked the idea of the unreliable narrator, or the multi-layered narrator, where you understand more than the narrator is telling you, and so I very intentionally did that with her. Sandrine being a child made it possible to do that.”
• November, 2008 Fiction as Fibbing: Benjamin Taylor

  Tags: character, fiction, imagination, language
  Published in Interviews

  

  “It’s about fifty percent based on certain things I know from real life, and about fifty percent made up out of nothing, just out of daydreaming. I think that’s the way it should be. This is not memoir, this is not autobiography, this is not confession. It’s fibbing. It’s making things up.”