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You can escape into a character.

Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.

As with anything, you need to keep your creative juices flowing and keep the character interesting.

In a way, the characters often do take over.

Character is a journey, not a destination.

If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.

I think that you always have something left, that you take something of the character with you.

I think you have to draw from any character and bring it to yourself as much as possible.

I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.

I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are, and your brain is drawing on things that you've experienced.