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To me, characters are at the heart of great literature.

All my big heroes are literary, writers.

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

There's a tendency when you write a book to portray yourself as the hero.

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.

When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also aware of its importance.

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

I just write the characters the way I see them. And maybe that's because I'm surrounded by the most amazing men,from my father to my husband to all of my brothers. They are true heroes!

Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.

One reason why in Hollywood we are so often inventing heroes is that real heroes are vexing.