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"I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth."
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"People love super heroes. It's true we're impressed by their bravery and fortitude, their supernatural gifts and physical brawn. But the fact is, villains possess these same qualities. So why our admiration for the hero and not the nemesis? Because of virtue. A super hero gives everything to defend what's good and right without seeking praise or reward. Think about it. All the great heroes give without taking, help without grumbling, sacrifice without asking recompense. A super hero's real strength, what we absolutely fall in love with, is his finer virtue."
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"The most powerful and courageous heroes I know are those who bite their tongues when justification, validation, temptation, or vengeance would have them strike with truthful, hurtful words."
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"I'm just a kid, Chiron," I said miserably. "What good is one lousy hero against something like Kronos?"Chiron managed a smile. '"What good is one lousy hero'? Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain said something like that to me once, just before he single-handedly changed the course of your Civil War."
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"In the men I love heroes, in the work I love heroism."
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"A hero: a man or woman who is unsatisfied by his condition, and resolves to do something about it."
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"A young hero is the world's greatest attraction."
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"We are all heroes of our little worlds."
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"Heroic ambition seemed to have been the cause of much of the world's pain then - quite like it is now. No villain ever saw himself a villain: he only saw himself a hero, and this goes just as no hero ever saw himself a hero: he simply did what he had to do. No true hero initially sets out with intentions of being deemed a hero."
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"The greatest hero for a country is the person who gave a progressive vision, a peaceful soul, a modern mind and an unshakable belief in science to his nation. And for the Turks, this honorable name is AtatA1?4rk, an immortal revolutionist!"
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"As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary."
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"In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict."
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"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."
Books
"So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot."
Work
"But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet."
Poetry
"In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures."
People
"I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important."
Challenge
"The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world."
Technology
"I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth."
Heroism
"I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose."
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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."
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