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All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.

I try to talk about things I know about. But my characters are more of a combination of people or how I imagine people would feel.

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.

I just always gravitate toward the kind of characters or people that maybe you don't want to talk to for a long time at a party, but you do like to watch what they're doing.

I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.

I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.

I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.

I am very observant of people's character.

For the most part, there's so much of me in my characters.

Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.