When
W. Somerset Maugham wrote a book everyone would say, "Oh, God, who is Willie writing about now?" When
Gustave Flaubert wrote "Emma Bovary", twenty women said they were Emma. I start writing with a theme in my mind. Then I start asking, what kind of a personality? And because I have a good ear, I unconsciously pick up certain people. But that doesn't mean those people have led that life. Going back to Shakespeare's time, there was a Hamlet, but not such as he wrote it.