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I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.

You live vicariously through your characters.

I am very observant of people's character.

When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share their thoughts, I see the world through their eyes and try to feel everything they feel.

Point of view gets me. If I can feel like a character rather than a reader, I'll read that book.

I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around.

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 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 think if you find that you're making a judgment on the character, than your audience will make a judgment on the character.

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