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All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.

As a novelist, I tend to know significantly more about my characters than I do about my friends.

I like characters who are larger-than-life, whether life-loving women or the artist or guru who grabs everything. But I don't live among people like that.

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.

My characters are all made up of pieces of people I have known, their backstories pieces of mine.

Sometimes, I think I may be more recognizable because I'm character-looking.

I try to talk about things I know about. But my characters are more of a combination of people or how I imagine people would feel.

I like characters who remind me of someone I know.