There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't try to live the life of my character but I think it's inevitable that there is some carry-over into your life.
It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.
I've lived through what seems to most - and myself - many lives.
Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without.
There's no one who, at some point, hasn't had the feeling their life is on the rails and they can't do anything about it.
Anyone I know who's almost died has come out of it, at least for a while, looking at things differently.
I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.
Sometimes I like to think it would be nice if you just had a character, and your personal life was your personal life. My life is definitely out there, you know?
I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing.