If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the b…

Margaret Atwood
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If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can't, obviously, be all of the narrators in all of your books, or else you'd be a very strange person indeed. ✨ Double bluff. Interview with Katharine Viner, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2000.
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