Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.
Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.
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 do think we need heroes. It gives people hope and an example to follow.
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
I don't really like heroes who always behave heroically. That's not interesting to me.
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
You have to do bad things in order to become a hero. You have to make sacrifices.
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