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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.

You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it's the story that matters.

I don't think of the characters as being good or bad because that doesn't help me as a writer.

I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.

I've found I can plunge the characters into whatever absurd, awful situation, and readers will follow as long as the writer makes them seem like 'real people.'

I love good stories; you have to have a good plot - characters which intertwine with a good plot.

It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.

I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff.

There are good characters and bad characters.