The Scientific Theory I Like Best Is

You Have To Imbue The Characters With Their Own Sort Of Feeling Of Justification And Morality. Everyone Has That, Whether We See Them As Evil Or Not. So I Try To Bring The Characters To Life By Making Them Likable Or Lovable, In The Sense That They Can Be, At Least To Themselves.

I Think You Can't Write With Anger. I Think It Always Has To Be With A Wink. There Always Has To Be An Element Of Hope In What You Write. Otherwise You're Just Getting Mad And It's Not Going To Be Fun For Anybody.

The Thing That You're Faulted On Today Is Not That You Are Too Tough, Or Not That You Aren't Careful. It's That You Might Have Been Too Soft. People Want That Red Meat Now Because You Have To Keep Up With The Mood And The Mood Today Is Harsh. It Really Is.

I Think Even The Characters That Are Fundamentally Evil And Wrong, I Want People To Really Love Them. I Think That's Important To Writing Believable Characters. They Don't Have To Be Likable But They Have To Be Loved, At Least By The Author.

If You Call Your Opponent A Politician, It's Grounds For Libel.