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I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.

What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray.

I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self.

Sometimes even when the book is over I don't know who's good and who's bad. It's really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white.

People are much more complicated in real life, but my characters are as subtle and nuanced as I can make them. But if you say my characters are too black and white, you've missed the point. Villains are meant to be black-hearted in popular novels. If you say I have a grey-hearted villain, then I've failed.

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.

'Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is.

In general, I am more interested in the darker characters when I watch or read stories.

There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.