I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.
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The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you.
I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.
If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them.
The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.
You can write and write, but if you don't have someone who can nail that character, it's never going to live.
I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.
I've always thought a novelist only has one character, and that is himself or herself. In my case, me.
Writers don't write about people they know. They write what they know about people.
I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.
One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.