Characters
- John Walker, fictional character in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons (eldest of the Walker children and Captain of the Swallow)
- John Walker, alter ego of U.S. Agent, a comic book hero, who is an ultra-patriotic crime fighter, formerly Super-Patriot and Captain America VI
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“The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of human history.”
—John Dos Passos (18961970)
“White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light.... They are too pure to have a market value; they contain no muck. How much more beautiful than our lives, how much more transparent than our characters are they! We never learned meanness of them.”
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“We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.”
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