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I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.

Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you.

I love making characters real and believable, through my own experience and choices.

I have the power to write these books where I invent characters that I really like, and it gets to come out the way they want it to come out, and I get to make it happen.

To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.

He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer.

I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel.