I love liminal characters. I love these characters that are outside and enter and consequently are perpetually outsiders, and who hold themselves to a higher standard.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits and losing their mind.
I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those are good characters.
I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.
I like all my characters in one way or another, or at least I understand them.
I think that I've always been attracted to characters who are positive and come from a very innocent place. I think there's a lot of room for discovery in these characters, and that's something I always have fun playing.
I love characters who are kind of haunted by their pasts, who struggle on despite their flaws, knowing that, at the end of the day, they're not going to shuffle off to those pearly gates.
The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
In my own work, I don't have favorite characters, but I have characters that I relate to the most. And I relate the most to Simon from 'The Mortal Instruments,' and also Tessa from 'The Infernal Devices.' They're more sort of bookish and shy characters.
I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks.
I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.