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I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.

Barbara Kingsolver
Cute, Children, Character
"Barbara Kingsolver: 'Motherhood is so sentimentalised in our culture'". Interview with Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2013.
I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.