Elizabeth McKenzie Mines Repressed Emotions
"I do tend to be drawn to characters who hold back, who may be repressed in some way."
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Writing, Still Writing
Maybe the point is that we writers should appreciate writing for the very way it keeps us trying, keeps us dreaming.
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There’s Not Always a Pill for That: In Defense of Conflict
If you talk to literature professors, you may have heard them wonder aloud at the tendency of their students to diagnose characters. Anna Karenina clearly has borderline personality disorder, Holden Caulfield seems to have been abused as a child, Raymond Carver’s characters wouldn’t have these problems if they’d just go to AA.
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