Jerome Stern Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: 1938 - March 19, 1996
Birthday: 1938
Death: March 19
When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were writing encyclopedia entries instead of stories. Their hesitancy about physical and psychological intimacy can be a barrier to vital fiction. Conversely, a narration that makes readers hear the characters' heavy breathing and smell their emotional anguish diminishes distance. Readers feel so close to the characters that, for those magical moments, they become those characters.
topic: Distance, Character, Writing, Encyclopedia, Narration, Entry, Magical Moments
