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"...however well I think I know my characters, they reveal themselves more clearly during the writing of the book, so that at the end, however carefully and intricately the work is plotted, I never get exactly the novel I planned. It feels, indeed, as if the characters and everything that happens to them exists in some limbo of the imagination, so that what I an doing is not inventing them but getting in touch with them and putting their story down in black and white, a process of revelation not of creation." -- P.D. James Talking About Detective Fiction