Quote of the Day (Carter)

“What makes fiction effective -- and this is true whether you are writing for young people or an older people, thrillers or romances -- is the ability of the reader to look at your characters and say, ‘I know those people, those are my neighbors, my sister, my brother, my parents.’ It's not a matter for me of what kind of scenes I write but what kind of people I write.” —Stephen L. Carter, quoted by Jeffrey Trachtenberg in “Just Asking…Stephen L. Carter,” The Wall Street Journal, July 5, 2008