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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.

Everyone has faced something; some struggles are more heroic than others.

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.

I don't really like heroes who always behave heroically. That's not interesting to me.

The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

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.

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