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I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

I discovered you can get closer to a character's thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.

One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.

It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest.

You put books out into the world, and people form their own visuals and images and attachments to characters; those characters become part of them, and they have their feelings about them.

When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share their thoughts, I see the world through their eyes and try to feel everything they feel.

I think the key is to give the reader characters they not only care about, but identify with, and to never take away all hope.

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.