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Any description of a person that comes from the outside is very hard to deal with. People don't like being summarised. It's nice to receive a compliment, but it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.

I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me, I've always found it to be a much more informative question to ask somebody what they read.

If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People aren't bad people. They all have their justifications.

Know people for who they are rather than for what they are.

I make up names for people all the time - it's part of writing. Very often, the name comes with the character, along with of a sense of who they are and what they do.

People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.

I don't want to be easily defined.

I could easily not be the person that people know.