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In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.

I like to say I'm not a hero.

Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story.

Tragedy makes you grow up.

Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.

I'm not a hero.

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person.

There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies.