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.
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I've always thought a novelist only has one character, and that is himself or herself. In my case, me.
If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can't, obviously, be all of the narrators in all of your books, or else you'd be a very strange person indeed.
I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.
People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.
Sometimes, a writer 'character' is just a projection of a person who is writing the story, but not necessarily 'me.'
I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.
Every character a writer creates has some of themselves in it somewhere.
All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.
I think every writer will tell you that their characters are always partially themselves: who I am and what I've experienced. It's always there in part of my characters.
All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have to change the character a little bit in case your friend or your relative reads the book, because you don't want them to know you wrote about them... They might get mad.
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