“Certainly concealment is part of writing, and we all hide in our charactrs; but writing is also a way of revealing ourselves. Either we do this voluntarily and courageously, or we do it out of timidity and in spite of ourselves. The unhappy young writer who invents heroes of stupefying intelligence, wisdom, beauty, strength, and virtue is like a child trying to hide behind a fencepost. She can’t hide all of herself, or even choose which parts to reveal.”

– Damon Knight, Creating Short Fiction

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