I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person. So from the first novel I've been learning techniques to distance myself from the characters so that they are not me and I don't try to protect them in ways that aren't good for the story.
I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am one of them; I like… - Beth Richardson Gutcheon
I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am one of them; I like…
- Beth Richardson Gutcheon
I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person. So from the first novel I've b… - Beth Richardson Gutcheon
I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person. So from the first novel I've b…
I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research. - Beth Richardson Gutcheon
I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.
If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it won't be interesting to the reader. - Beth Richardson Gutcheon
If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it won't be interesting to the reader.
I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of six ch… - Beth Richardson Gutcheon
I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of six ch…
How quickly a person in pain whom you can't help becomes a reproach. And then, no doubt, a thorn. - Beth Richardson Gutcheon
How quickly a person in pain whom you can't help becomes a reproach. And then, no doubt, a thorn.
Well. I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many … - Beth Richardson Gutcheon
Well. I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many …
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