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Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

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.

All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have to change the character a little bit in case your friend or your relative reads the book, because you don't want them to know you wrote about them... They might get mad.

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.

Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level.

We writers of series fiction tend to idealize ourselves in our characters, giving them attributes we wish we possessed and ever more interesting lives.

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.