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In a way, the characters often do take over.

I think if you've held onto a character for several years and then you're getting rid of that character, it's going to be traumatic.

The characters I'm most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You don't see them regularly anymore, but you still love them and keep in touch.

After a while, the character sort of took over.

In the old days, I just could not leave characters alone. Now I just try to keep the ones that still have something in the way of stories to tell.

I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.

Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

I think that you always have something left, that you take something of the character with you.

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.