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The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.

I think if you're too embroiled in the need to relate too closely to the character, then you start to judge the character for the audience rather than to present it to the audience for their enjoyment and them to mull over the questions that the characters present.

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.

All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.

Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

I try to talk about things I know about. But my characters are more of a combination of people or how I imagine people would feel.

What an audience decides about where certain characters come from is really up to them.

I'm always interested in the ways in which a character can inhabit either a theme or a premise personally, so that those scenes that are about his character or his relationship with other characters feel in context and don't seem to be apart from or oddly vestigial to the actual drama.

I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they're talking about me for.

Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.