The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren’t any images of them, no physical tangibility whatsoever. They were pictures in the reader’s head,...

I guess, what I’m saying is that when I’ve been this surprised by my own characters and world, all bets are off.

Every actor will tell you it’s so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex and more broad and more interesting, and have more sides to them.

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.