The Writer Is in There
29th June 2016 | for Creatives | artist in the art, writing, artist's voice, Ransom Riggs |
"You'd have to be a literary critic or a psychiatrist to pick the writer out of his work. Every fictional story goes through this sort of blender process where you take some real experience... you know what's real or true when you put it into the blender with fiction, and then it gets all mixed up with something that didn't really happen, but there's still a little of you in there. I think the writer is in there no matter what you do. You can't really remove yourself from it."
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