There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.
We can't constantly tell stories of heroes. We have to hear the other stories, too, about people in dire straits who make bad choices.
Heroes have a rough time because they stand up when they ought not to, they speak when they ought not to; they always have to go that extra mile.
My heroes are just everyday people who work hard, are honest and have integrity.
I think heroes who are not flawed are not believable.
It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
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.
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves.
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.