Laura Wade Quotes

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

Whenever I'm writing a book, small details from my life always creep in.

There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.

Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. That's just the nature of the beast.

I don't believe you just create a character out of thin air, there's always something of yourself you bring.

There's some of me in all my characters.

There are fragments of me in all my characters.

To tell you the truth, I don't ever talk about characters as separate from myself.

Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself.

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when I'm writing fiction that I'm not really revealing that much about myself. But, of course, I am, and I know that I am. And yet there's this sort of membrane that I get to work behind as I write my fiction, and I love it.

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.

I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.

Every character a writer creates has some of themselves in it somewhere.

I like to think I put some of myself in every character.

All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.

I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.

Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.

I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.

I have not thought too much about the psychology or life of the character Jonas in some time.

My most successful books, the ones that I feel the strongest about, are the ones that started with a premise that for me was deeply emotional.

I should probably be careful admitting this, but sometimes, when my characters are having a disagreement, it's a disagreement I'm having with myself. I can see both sides of the argument.

With every role that I do, I always see a little bit of me, a little bit of art and life.