11.   He looked irritated and said that he had based his character on a typical Australian bushman.

12.   He disliked suggestions that he based his characters on particular people.

13.   He said he based his character loosely on a mix of Bill Gates and Ross Perot.

14.   In his books, Herriot based the character of Ewan Ross on Bingman.

15.   McCarty, who suffered from cancer as a young person, said she based the character on herself as a child.

16.   Ondaatje said in a telephone interview from Oklahoma that the character was loosely based on the life of Almasy.

17.   Part of that was due to the fact that we loosely based characters on people who we all knew.

18.   Proust based the character of Swann on Charles Haas and Charles Ephrussi, founder and editor of the Gazette des Beaux-Arts.

19.   The Ali McGraw character was not based on Tipper Gore.

20.   The character is loosely based on one of her childhood friends, Devoto says.