'The characters come to life within you'

 

“Theinteresting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that thecharacters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they?They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people aroundyou.” – Whitley Strieber

 

Born in San Antonio, TX, on June 13,1945 Strieber has split his writing talents between horror stories, sciencefiction, and speculative fiction with a social conscience – interrupted (bothliterally and figuratively) by his nonfiction account of being abducted by“non-human visitors.”   That particularbook, Communion, while pooh-poohed as“improbable if not impossible,” was a huge bestseller and a subsequentsuccessful big screen adaptation. 

 

Two of his other books, The Wolfen and The Hunger, also were made into successful films.  Still going strong as he turns 79, these daysStrieber writes for the SyFy Channel, does non-fiction books, and produces a podcast“Dreamland.”  His latest book is 2023’s Them.

  

"Everything ultimately comesdown to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters,”Strieber said.   “Does or does not acharacter address moral being in a universal and important way? If it does,then it's literature.”

@font-face {font-family:Times; panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}@font-face {font-family:"ＭＳ 明朝"; mso-font-charset:78; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1791491579 18 0 131231 0;}@font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}@font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1073743103 0 0 415 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"ＭＳ 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}.MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"ＭＳ 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;}