It doesn't matter whether characters are real people or not; if they're not vivid on the page, then the reader doesn't care about them that much, and, if the reader doesn't care about them that much, then they don't care what happens to them.
Salman RushdieThe way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
Salman RushdieA book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Salman Rushdie