We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing – by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.

M.H. Abrams
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If you lose the focus of what you are writing about, the power and permanence of a story will go out of a book. If you take the perspective that you are just human, then all of your writing becomes less special and special people become boring.

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