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I'm a little hesitant to make my characters sentimental or to risk having the work labeled sentimental. It's something that I resist as a reader, and I don't resist it in life. I'm not an unmoved person by any stretch, but I think I don't want, I guess, to indulge those kinds of things sometimes in fiction. I can't tell you why exactly.

I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.

I'm not a sentimental guy.

I'm not terribly sentimental.

I mean, I think I'm pretty sentimental.

The characters I'm most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You don't see them regularly anymore, but you still love them and keep in touch.

I am a complete sentimentalist when it comes to clothes. I have so many memories attached to them that I can't throw anything out.

I'm a sentimental guy.

I am really drawn to damaged characters, and I have a lot of sympathy for them. Making those complicated characters empathetic is something to strive for. It's too easy to create a good guy or a good girl.