![]() Is that a personal favorite and/or has Dickens inspired your fiction in any way?ĭickens is a big personal favorite and he's certainly been a huge inspiration and remains one. On a similar note, Great Expectations is David’s favorite novel growing up. ![]() If you know what to look for, you can see a lot. Reading a novel is like spending a vacation on the author’s mind. I think that what really reveals things about the author is not the obvious elements in the story, but the way it is told, how the language is articulated, how the images and emotions are shaped, how the structure and the style is designed. In general terms I think it is tempting to believe that when a novel is told in the first person by a character that character is in fact an alter ego for the author. I believe each one of us holds many different possible “versions” of ourselves and we end up being one or another by our choices and our circumstances. I would say David is perhaps a distant and extreme version of my younger self, or somebody I could have become under other circumstances. That said, there are notable differences. ![]() They're your creatures and come from your mind, like it or not. In many ways, all the characters you create have a little or a lot of you. ![]() Does David share anything in common with you as an author? ![]() The protagonist of THE ANGEL'S GAME is a novelist named David Martin. ![]()
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