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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.

Pat Barker
Hate, Character, Fiction
"Double vision". Interview with Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2007.
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.