If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.
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Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.
I'm not in the business of meddling with people's destinies - and yes, my characters are real people to me. They have histories and thoughts and yearnings and hurts and misgivings and pleasures that don't belong to me.
My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people.
To me, my characters are more real than most people I meet.
My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.
As a novelist, I tend to know significantly more about my characters than I do about my friends.
I treat all my characters as if they were real, and I am scrupulous about the details of their lives.
At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers can identify with them.
I'm about my characters.
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