"I suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, be..." — John Banville

I suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such a meticulous, intricate, technical business. I wish I could say that I love my characters and that frequently they take over the book and run away with the plot and so on. But they don't exist.

John Banville Novelist • Irish