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I put ordinary people in jeopardy and give them the opportunity to be heroic. Then there's a great payoff for the reader at the end, when the heroic character gets what he or she deserves. Readers will come back again and again if they feel satisfied at the end.

— Terri Blackstock

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.'

— MaryJanice Davidson

I think the key is to give the reader characters they not only care about, but identify with, and to never take away all hope.

— Lynn Flewelling

People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story.

— Len Wein

Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.

— William Nicholson

I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience.

— Jeremy London

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.

— Cat Stevens

I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist's shoes.

— Nicholas Jarecki

I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.

— David Tennant

I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.

— Jodie Foster

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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