A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I put a lot of myself into my characters when I write.
Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change.
Every character a writer creates has some of themselves in it somewhere.
An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.
And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters.
I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.
Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.
Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.
When you're writing fiction, you're in every character 'cause you can't help it.