Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes

It seems to me that most characters, in anything, are flawed in some way, just like most people. You look for the good in the flawed people and vice versa, and then try and make them appealing in some way.

Everyone loves characters that are relatable or who have unique quirks or tragic flaws.

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 villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.

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

In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.

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

I think any character has to be well-rounded, whether they are male or female - they have to be complex and make choices that maybe we don't agree with, you know? I guess that's what makes them human.

I love flawed characters, male or female, and I only want to talk about flawed characters, really, in what I do.

I'm trying to make really flawed characters that have got redeeming features so people can say, 'I don't really like that character, but I can understand a bit where they've come from.'

Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

The truth is that, to me, a likeable character is a character that is really flawed, so I don't know what people mean when they say 'likable.'

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

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.

In 'Garden Party' or '40 Days and 40 Nights,' I played characters who people don't necessarily like; I just find some humanity in them.

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.

The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices.

I'm attracted to playing characters that have flaws.

I love it when you like a character, and then she does something you don't like, and you hate her for a while - then you love her again. I'd like to see her have unlikable moments that the audience understands and sympathizes with.

I am really drawn to damaged characters, and I have a lot of sympathy for them. Making those complicated characters empathetic is something to strive for. It's too easy to create a good guy or a good girl.

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

All of my characters are less than perfect.

If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.

I, as a fan of numerous TV shows and movies, know that people mess up. The characters that we love are not always going to act in the ways that we want them to. That's what makes them interesting.

I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.