Quote by Margaret Mahy
They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.
Summary
This quote suggests that while the characters in question are not real, they may not be entirely constructed from the author's imagination. The speaker acknowledges that certain elements of these characters are influenced by their real-life encounters with diverse individuals. In essence, these characters possess traits and attributes that draw upon the author's personal experiences and observations of different people, lending them a certain degree of realism despite being fictional.