But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.
There's a tendency when you write a book to portray yourself as the hero.
The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.
Great writers are the saints for the godless.
In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something.
I'm with Milton and the Rolling Stones: I don't find the Devil an unsympathetic character. But in any case, my fiction is populated as much by people who do good as it is by those who do bad. I'm interested in imaginatively accommodating as much of the human as possible, for which you need both moral extremes and everything in between.
No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
I always favor the hero and heroine from whichever book I've completed most recently. Yes, I'm faithless and fickle!
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