As the lives of their characters develop, they end up on paths that writers could not possibly have foreseen – and hence give the impression of agency, even to their authors. William Blake wrote of his works “tho I call them Mine I know they are not Mine,” and characterized his process of writing as a kind of dictation, “without Premeditation or even against my Will.” Musicians sometimes speak in exactly the same way.
-Cass R. Sunstein
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