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All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters. They are real to me while I'm writing them, and I think that makes them real to the readers as well.

I love people who are real.

People are so afraid to talk about real things, but they're experiences that everyone goes through.

People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.

There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.

It is fun to try figure out the things that really are real and the things that aren't.

To me, my characters are more real than most people I meet.

Meta-fiction doesn't depend on the illusion that you're reading about real people.

The first time I looked at Yammer, I thought I was on Facebook. Work is not a social network, with serendipitous communications and photo collections. Work is about managing tasks and responding to things quickly.

You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.