I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions. . . . Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.
Source: In NY Times, 26 Nov 1978.
-- Isaac Singer, (Jul 14 1904-1991), Polish-US novelist, short-story writer; He was the foremost Yiddish writer noted for his imagination, irony and wit, e.g., Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy, 1983.