When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think with every writer there are two people there.
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.
An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.
When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we have with others.
Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.
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.
I've always thought a novelist only has one character, and that is himself or herself. In my case, me.