Character In Fiction Quotes

“A real person, open-ended, can only be approached as a hypothesis. A character in fiction is demanded to be accountable. Some characters are more willing to offer a context. The young women in Jane Austen's novels, for instance, seek happiness and suffer when happiness is made unavailable, by situation, chance, or folly.”
― Yiyun Li, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life