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I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them.

We seek to craft characters who inspire empathy: characters our audience will care for and, as a result, will care about what happens to them and thus will share the journey we have charted. A story, after all, is the character's journey.

If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do, but if I did, it's one that's intensely humanistic.

I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a world that has a shape they don't know and can't finally alter.

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.

When I write a book, characters come to life for me somewhere at the back of my head. I strive to make them flesh and blood in an abstract way, in words.

It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.

I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.

I am thrilled to be able to bring my vision of beauty to others who may be inspired by it.