If you look at my body of work, there's always a dark side to my characters. They've always got a skeleton in the closet; they've always got a subtext.
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I think we all have a kind of dark side, and that's what keeps life - and characters - interesting. That's one of the things that I'm drawn to write about again and again, the secrets we keep and how they shape us.
I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human.
I'm drawn to dark characters, and to things that are really weighty.
Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.
I have always been a dark writer.
In general, I am more interested in the darker characters when I watch or read stories.
It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.
As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.
To me, there are things you're good at and things you're not so good at. For some reason, I'm good at darker characters. It has to do with how you look.
I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.
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