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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.

One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.

If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them.

There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.

Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.

You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.

Every character a writer creates has some of themselves in it somewhere.

One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.

I put a lot of myself into my characters when I write.

With writing fiction, I'm either not courageous enough or just not suited for telling truths in a more conventional way. As an actor, I inhabit those characters as I'm writing them.