I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can access the emotional life of the character.
As a novelist, I tend to know significantly more about my characters than I do about my friends.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.
I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.
It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.
I try to write characters that are as real, emotionally and psychologically, as I can make them; I feel the same way about setting. This often means that I'm drawing from my experiences and observations.
I love writing. I feel more connected to that than I do a lot of the other things.
I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.
I put a lot of myself into my characters when I write.