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"I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth."
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"A young hero is the world's greatest attraction."

"Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god, country and apple pie, or whatever particular delicacy their mother made. It had never occurred to him that they might do it because they'd get yelled at if they didn't."

"The true hero trains himself in silence."

"Wait just a minute," Ares growled. He pointed at Thalia and me. "These two are dangerous. It'd be much safer, while we've got them here-""Ares," Poseidon interrupted, "they are worthy heroes. We will not blast my son to bits.""Nor my daughter," Zeus grumbled. "She has done well."

"Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome."
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"If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say."

"Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise."

"Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories."

"Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming."

"Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence."

"My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about."
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