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I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.

I love stories. I just enjoy telling stories and watching what these characters do - although writing continues to be just as hard as it always was.

I'm fascinated by people in their eighties and nineties. Especially those who are still creating and living in an interesting way. I am fascinated by them because they have so much to say now that they've lived for so long.

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and some even crawl out of the dusty remote recesses of my imagination.

Getting to share the stories in my head with other people and have them enjoy those stories, and having them come to see my characters as real. That's so cool.

I was just fascinated with how everyone else in the world lived, and I was interested in telling their story.

I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.