Here’s another one of my favorite paragraphs on writing. This is Orson Scott Card on writing child characters, from his introduction to Ender’s Game:
Never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along — the same person that I am today. I never felt that I spoke childishly. I never felt that my emotions and desires were somehow less real than adult emotions and desires. And in writing Ender’s Game, I forced the audience to experience the lives on these children from that perspective — the perspective in which their feelings and decisions are just as important as any adult’s.
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