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I always favor the hero and heroine from whichever book I've completed most recently. Yes, I'm faithless and fickle!

I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.

A lot of my characters are anti-heroes that became heroes.

I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.

Heroes in drama are people who try hard to reach a virtuous ideal. And whether they succeed or fail really doesn't matter - it's the trying that counts.