Sometimes, a writer 'character' is just a projection of a person who is writing the story, but not necessarily 'me.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.
I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.
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.
Every character a writer creates has some of themselves in it somewhere.
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.
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.
The problem with being a writer is that some readers tend to think that anything that comes out of a character's mouth is you talking.
I've always thought a novelist only has one character, and that is himself or herself. In my case, me.
A writer is what I am.
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.