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I try to inhabit each of the characters as fully as I can, however short-lived they are. But most of my show happens offstage.

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 like to be in the spotlight once in a while, and then I like to be in the shadows. It's really regenerating.

They really stay just characters to me. I look at them, and I don't see always the same person up there. And hopefully, people will see that too. Because it's very easy to bore people, and that's a killer. So hopefully that won't happen.

I can always see something of myself in the characters I play.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

There is a time and place for being in the limelight. As far as being away from the spotlight, well, a certain air of exclusivity is always good.

My characters populate a big, vibrant world. Sometimes they rub shoulders. Sometimes they don't.

The characters I'm most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You don't see them regularly anymore, but you still love them and keep in touch.

All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.