"A 'living' character is not necessarily 'true to life'. It is a person whom we can see and hear, whether he be true or false to human nature as we know it. What the creator of character needs is not so much knowledge of motives as keen sensibility; the dramatist need not understand people; but he must be exceptionally aware of them."Thomas Stearns Eliot
(September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965)
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Beautifully stated
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