Quotation by Luigi Pirandello

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When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936), Italian author, playwright. The father, in Six Characters in Search of an Author, act 3 (1921).

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