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There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and 'live' with the characters.

I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.

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

The way I live my life or conduct myself when I have a problem is very different from many of the characters I play.

I don't try to live the life of my character but I think it's inevitable that there is some carry-over into your life.

As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.

I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.

With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you from your work.

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.