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I suppose the textbook definition of an anti-hero is pretty straightforward - a protagonist who embodies not only heroic characteristics but also some characteristics typically deemed non-heroic, even villainous.

It's always more fun to be an anti-hero. They're more interesting.

I don't know why I'm drawn to anti-heroes, but I certainly am.

A lot of my characters are anti-heroes that became heroes.

I don't believe in anti-heroes. Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero.

I definitely have a preference for writing anti-heroes and bad guys, especially when they have motivations that the average 'good' person can understand and get behind.

Everyone likes a bit of variety. I'm sure none of my readers only want to read about anti-heroes or villainous protagonists any more than they only want to read about square-jawed heroes doing the right thing. I just write characters than entertain me and hope they'll be ones that other people want to read about, too.

Look, we're in the time of the anti-hero.

There are a lot of people I look up to and respect, but there's nobody really specific I would call a hero.

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.