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We're all used to seeing pretty people. I want to see real people.

What do people want? Contact. People want to be able to see you and touch you. Are you real?

Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods - the sum is bigger than the parts, and the parts will grow.

I love people who are real.

I really love to set things in places that are real to me.

Someone's got to be interested in how I feel, just because I'm here and I'm real.

The people I write are real to me, and basically, they tell me about their environments on a need-to-know basis.

I like to be real. I don't like things to be staged or fussy.

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.