Franz Wertvollen. (№ 420760)

QUESTION: How do I create live characters?
F.W.: To be a living person. All. It's that simple. How to write a good book? Be a living person. You're not going to write a living book if you're stumped. You'll never create living characters by being a stump. If you're a stump yourself, your characters will always be cardboards. Always. There's nothing you can do. There are no formal advice: "observe more", "look, peep, write off..."
Even if the person you want to write off the character from lives with you in the same room for the last 20 years, you will not write him off alive if you yourself are a stump.