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I think every writer will tell you that their characters are always partially themselves: who I am and what I've experienced. It's always there in part of my characters.

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

I'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters.

People are always thinking that I'm the main character in my books, but each one has been different, and sometimes they've been men.

You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.

Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end, and I know some important incidents along the way.

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

When you're writing fiction, you're in every character 'cause you can't help it.