I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's a tendency when you write a book to portray yourself as the hero.
For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to conquer. I just sit quietly for a few years, and then it starts to become something.
I always favor the hero and heroine from whichever book I've completed most recently. Yes, I'm faithless and fickle!
Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.
I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.
Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.
Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but the book will be pretty boring.
Fiction novels, that's my game.
Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.
There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.