About Characters
When one creates a character, even if it is inspired on this person, even if if talks as this person, it thinks as this person, it is NOT this person. It is someone else, with a different story, and don't you ever dare to say that a character is it's author. First, because it may lead to wrong interpretations about the author's life and thoughts, even to love or hate based on the characters one assumes to be the same of their creator. Kind people may write about terrible villains, rude people can create lovely pieces of text. One author is not it's work. And second, because by inferring that a character is the representation of its author, beyond committing an unforgivable mistake (except if the book is an autobiography, of course) you are also loosing a great opportunity: the amazing, scary, deep, marvelous experience of considering a character real. There is a world to be discovered behind each character, if you consider it as a person. Not necessarily a hum...