“I don’t know, but try not to get angry. Many of the readers who find themselves in my stories become irate.” “Why?” “Perhaps because each of us has an idea he has created of himself. When a writer strips us of that self-image, we object angrily.” Kamal inquired anxiously, “Are you holding back some secret opinions about me?” His friend immediately reassured him: “Certainly not. But a writer may begin with someone he knows and then forget all of that person’s characteristics in creating a new specimen of humanity. The only relationship between the two may be that the first inspired the second.
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