Alfred Chester and/or Vilma Howard: Do you have any difficulty controlling your characters? E. M. Forster says that he sometimes finds a character running away with him.
Ralph Ellison: No, because I find that a sense of the ritual understructure of the fiction helps to guide the creation of characters. Action is the thing. We are what we do and do not do.
---interview
Pushkin is of the Forster type---he claimed he was surprised when he realized Tatyana could not marry Eugene. I think Tolstoy said something similar, but I'm not sure.
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