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I find more of an authenticity in people who are a little strange - so I really like characters who are just the tiniest bit weird. I find enormous comfort in that - someone who's kind of normal just doesn't feel as true.

I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.

I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.

The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird.

I like to play these unconventional characters, yes. They're close to the way I feel as a human being.

I feel like, sometimes, characters that are just good and nice can seem boring or uninteresting.

I'm not unusual; it's the others who are strange.

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

I like to think everyone is pretty weird but they don't show it.

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.