Jason Aaron Quotes
To me, the more interesting villains are the ones you can, in some sense, relate to or sympathize with at times. Maybe you sympathize with them one moment; the next moment, they do something truly atrocious, and you feel bad you ever sympathized with them in the first place.
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Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lecturing, as opposed to the characters lecturing their children or students. Dialogue can humanise the story and make it go down somewhat more smoothly.
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The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights.
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To me, the more interesting villains are the ones you can, in some sense, relate to or sympathize with at times. Maybe you sympathize with them one moment; the next moment, they do something truly atrocious, and you feel bad you ever sympathized with them in the first place.
