characters

There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I like to puzzle readers, but I do not make so to the point of being so complex that they will lose interest in the plot. And that for me is the essence of every great literature around the world, and that__ been so for ages.(....)Some were inpired by real life characters, some other books I wrote are hybrid fiction/non-fiction, so I pretty much get inspired by people who have lived, and even who are still breathing among us_ so don__ get discouraged if I didn__ mention your personality traits yet. I might even have your name over my books, I must some day_

Stop talking filthy things, It doesn't help anyone.

Most of the world__ problems are caused by people who made education compulsory, but personal development optional. Because of them, we have many intelligent people who lack good characters.

Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.

Out there, there is some kinda genius person... I am talking about Sherlock Holmes... First very fast talking + in the same full of knowledge.

George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life.

I knew so many gangsters, and I call on that experience with them for characters.

I love Norse mythology - Thor and Odin and Loki - amazing characters.

[W]hen I put Jorge in the library I did not yet know he was the murderer. He acted on his own, so to speak. And it must not be thought that this is an 'idealistic' position, as if I were saying that the characters have an autonomous life and the author, in a kind of trance, makes them behave as they themselves direct him. That kind of nonsense belongs in term papers. The fact is that the characters are obliged to act according to the laws of the world in which they live. In other words, the narrator is the prisoner of his own premises.

I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body.

Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters.

Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly.

Most people carry their demons around with them, buried down deep inside. Writers wrestle their demons to the surface, fling them onto the page, then call them characters.

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others.

One of the key secrets of great writing is knowing where to start and when to stop.

No writing is effortless. I__ not saying you can__ have a good day where the words just kind of flow, but even those words have to be edited. Probably more than once. And I__ not saying a character hasn__ somehow gone in a different direction that I wanted her to go, but that was me, not her. I let her get away from me. I let her roam free and nine times out of ten, the result is not good. I have to go back and start over because she veered off the path of my book. She changed the vision. And I did that. Not her.

Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I've changed the cat little because I didn't know what my characters were going to say next.