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There are bits of me in all my characters.

I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.

For the most part, there's so much of me in my characters.

There starts to be an overlap between you and the character.

The characters I'm most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You don't see them regularly anymore, but you still love them and keep in touch.

I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.

I'm about my characters.

For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of benevolent deity. And, for the most part, my characters go along with it. I write intense character sketches and long, play-like conversations between me and them, but they stay out of the book writing itself.

I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am.

My characters come from a good place.