There's a tendency when you write a book to portray yourself as the hero.
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Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.
Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.
The only reason anyone ever called me a hero is because I get this paper, here.
I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.
I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
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 think even a hero is someone who has sort of the flaw or imperfection of character. I remember Alice Walker saying that once - she'd written a novel about a civil rights hero, and it was someone who had this flaw, this central flaw.
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