Quote

The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you.

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

If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them.

We writers of series fiction tend to idealize ourselves in our characters, giving them attributes we wish we possessed and ever more interesting lives.

To me, characters are at the heart of great literature.

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.

I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.