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My job is to focus on bringing characters to life in an honest and personal way.

Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them or telling them.

My job is to allow the character to live and breathe - and become as real to the reader as he or she is to me.

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.

I always do stories that I believe in, characters that I find interesting, and directors who I want to work with. All these factors have contributed while making choices and continue to as an actor and as a producer.

Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.

My stories are character driven.

I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.

You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.

You live vicariously through your characters.