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When I do my job, I dive into these characters and try to flush something out of myself into these characters, and hopefully that translates well.

I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.

I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.

I always try to make each character my own.

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

I put a lot of myself into my characters when I write.

When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind.

I try to distinguish my characters from each other.

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.

A thing I do with all my characters is I break them down into one of three things: mind, heart, and groin. I figure out where they come from and what they utilize most.