There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience.
I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
To me, characters are at the heart of great literature.
You decide which characters you want and then do the best you can to bring their humanity to the forefront in the context that you place them in - the crises in which you've placed them.
Characters have changed my mind about some very fundamental moral issues, and that's the real satisfaction in the way I write - the ultimate learning experience.
I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and family is pretty rich.
I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.
I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.
I guess you could say that no matter what the characters are enduring, I try to make them retain their humanity. Their self-absorbed, grouchy, selfish, aggravating humanity.