Christopher McCulloch Quotes

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

Flaws make us all human, and you're rooting for characters because of those flaws. It's ageless if you're interested in relationships and the way people can or can't relate to each other.

I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones and enjoy the challenge of making readers root for them in spite of their unsympathetic path and destructive choices.

I'm always much more interested in flawed heroes than in perfect ones.

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 attracted to playing characters that have flaws.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.

I think anyone loves to play a character that is either evil to a certain extent or has a real definable character flaw. Those are always really fun, and, I think, funny.

Some of my favorite shows are ones where the characters are vile and human and flawed. That's what makes me want to keep watching a show, not writers telling me how to feel about characters.

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.

I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect.

You don't want to play a perfect person; no one cares about that.

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'm drawn to the not-so-perfect character.

I like fractured characters with human follies.

I am not perfect. I know that. None of us is perfect.

From a storytelling perspective, perfection is death.

I choose grey characters, as I enjoy playing a human character. I don't shy away from showing the shortcomings of my characters.

I write about messy relationships - between friends, rivals, married couples, siblings. I'm not really interested in boy/girl romances.

All my characters are quite relatable, as they are flawed, true, and honest. All of us are flawed; nobody is pure and pious.

I don't want to watch a show or a movie about the guy who doesn't have any problems, who is sort of a goodie two shoes and just does everything morally right, because that's not the person I relate to. That's not who I am. That's not what anyone is.

For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was Harry. He was in a racket. He did bad things. What about it? He was the man we knew.

A friend whom you have been gaining during your whole life, you ought not to be displeased with in a moment. A stone is many years becoming a ruby - take care that you do not destroy it in an instant against another stone.

No one was perfect. But we all did the best we could. I guessed you had to forgive when you could, move on when you couldn't, and love your family and friends for who they were instead of punishing them for who they weren't.