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I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

None of the characters I played was very close to me as a real person.

I always talk about my characters like they're real people.

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.

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

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.

The characters I write about are very internal.