Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have invented thirteen thousand characters? Thirteen thousand! The population of a small town! )

Nick Hornby
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When you think of David Copperfield, you think of the amazing characters that have come out of his books. He has an amazing imagination that produces characters that are so vivid that they seem to be real. The most important thing in writing is to create characters whose actions are based on their own personalities. If they are based only on the personalities of the people who created them, then they may lose their own personalities when they are copied or plagiarized.

Source: The Polysyllabic Spree

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