Amanda || eastofreaden asked Alan Moore:

Out of all of your amazing characters, who do you think is the closest representation of yourself/who do you identify with the most?

Alan Moore To a considerable extent, it would be fair to say that every character I’ve written – male, female, human, alien, good, evil or otherwise – is to some degree a speculative extension of myself, because that, in my experience, is the only way to write truly convincing characters: you find some forgotten or suppressed facet of your own persona, and then you inflate that and carefully build it up into a credible character type. However, the character in all my fiction that is consciously the most closely based upon myself is Alma Warren, an unreasonable and post-menopausal female artist who is the elder sister of the main character in my forthcoming novel Jerusalem. That, as near as I can manage from the limited perspective of being inside myself, is pretty much me – although in real life I’m a lot more physically beautiful, obviously, and a lot less vain.

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