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Report, if you have a problem with this page“ He must shape simultaneously (in an expanding creative moment) his characters, plot, and setting, each inextricably connected to the others; he must make his whole world in a single, coherent gesture, as a potter makes a pot... ”
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John Gardner
From : The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers