I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
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I think people throughout the world identify with my characters.
I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.
To me, my characters are more real than most people I meet.
I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.
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 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.
I'm about my characters.
I think anybody would be hard pressed not to relate to at least one of the characters, because there's so many different multifaceted people populating this crazy world.
Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one thing. As you work on a character, he/she is revealed more and more. That's what I continue to love about the work.
I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me.
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