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The writer's characters must stand before us with a wonderful clarity, such continuous clarity that nothing they do strikes us as improbable behavior for just that character, even when the character's action is, as sometimes happens, something that came as a surprise to the writer himself. We must understand, and the writer before us must understand, more than we know about the character; otherwise neither the writer nor the reader after him could feel confident of the character's behavior when the character acts freely.
John Gardner The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Y… character fiction know understand

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Unscramble JOHN4-letter words that start with J4-letter words that end in N4-letter words containing OH4-letter words containing HN4-letter words with J and O
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The objective case of thou. See Thou.
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EETH
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BEING USED OR WORKED FOR THE FIRST TIME
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