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You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.

Virtue After Operate Sinful
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Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.

Angry Backgrounds Before Characters
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How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.

Absolutely Characters Describe Different
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That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.

Answers Characters Find Incredible
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Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the lives of my characters.

About Afghanistan Although Books
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

Heart Drives Characters Passionate
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From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

Characters Hemingway Learned Listen
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

About Anything Bizarre Characters
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I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.

Bad Bad Ones Characters Even
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I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.

Always Behalf Characters Endure
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.

Become Began Characters Complicated
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I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

Blank Face Books Care
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I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

Certain Characters Cutting Feet
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I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.

Characters People Having Hope Feels
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I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel.

Feel Characters All Some Part
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I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.

About Block Characters Could
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None of my characters have really had jobs.

Characters Had Jobs None
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The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.

Make character Mean Watch Being made
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

My characters Passionate desire Rebellious
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