Lynn Shelton Quotes

When it comes to your hero, what the readers really fall in love with are his flaws. No one ever falls in love with a perfect hero.

I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters, I hope.

I think there is something in my books that says these are people doing their best under difficult circumstances - sometimes they do wrong things and make mistakes, but who doesn't? And who wants to read about somebody who never does?

I'm always attracted to the vulnerable character more than I am the superhero.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.

Some of my best friends here in New York have pasts I have a hard time reconciling with the people I'm close to now. But I wouldn't change them - or their pasts - for anything in the world. Their experiences are what made them the people they are today.

You hope that when you're playing someone possibly unsympathetic that you can bring them something redeeming, something people can hang onto.

The irony of what I do is that the more you reveal someone in their frailties and shortcomings, the more we feel drawn to them and forgiving we feel of them.

After all, the only way to communicate is to find someone who can comprehend; the only way to be forgiven is to find someone who is willing to forgive.

We're all amateurs when it comes to love. Don't be too hard on each other.

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.

I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.

Central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact, regardless of whether we kiss or we wound.

Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.

I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.

I think we love watching people that are flawed because we're all flawed.

I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love.

To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.

The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people's flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort of connection you feel with someone when you realize that maybe even the negative things that they've said or done are because of insecurities or injuries they've endured.

I can play really terrible human beings, and I seem to have a quality that people can, if not necessarily forgive me those sins, at least cut me some slack.