Yiyun Li Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• One easy mistake to make with the first novel is to expand the short story. Some things are better as a story; you cannot dilute things into a novel. I think the first hundred pages of a novel are very important. That's where you set things up: the world, the characters. Once you've set that up, it'll be much easier.

  Yiyun Li

  Mistake, Character, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

• You can write about a country without taking a stand, but you cannot write about a country without noting that there's history, and that there's politics going on. To me, that's the same if you write about America. You don't have to write about politics, but the politics have to be present in the characters.

  Yiyun Li

  Country, Writing, Character

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Your characters are always your children. And while you are writing, you're keeping them safe. Now they're ready to go into the world and it's sad. I'm happy with the way the novel came out but all the characters' ending really saddened me.

  Yiyun Li

  Children, Writing, Character

  Source: therumpus.net

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