Friday Forays in Fiction: Quote

Re Charaacter and Character Development:

All novels, short stories, and plays, and most poems, are about human transformation. the subject of the novel is the human spirit and psyche--how the characters interact in their relationships with other souls and with the world in general....there has to be movement in he personality structure of the main character or characters. This is to say that, in part, the purpose of the novel is to map out the events in the protagonist's life that cause her to change.

Walter Mosley in This Year You Write Your Novel p 40-41