Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction.
I remember talking to John Mortimer, and he said he was relying on Rumpole to keep him in his old age; well, I'm doing the same with Phryne - she's my mainstay.
When I was growing up, I used to watch 'Power Rangers' and 'Ninja Turtles.' It seemed like every movie had someone doing martial arts in it, so I would go around punching and kicking trees.
Whenever someone asks me to name a dream hero or pair, I always end up getting Bollywood names in my mind.
I like the idea of capturing people who aren't there to save the world.
[Doctor Strange ] is slightly more specialised than Spider-Man or Superman or Batman, but he's very loved by people who know him.
Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear.
I remember I wanted to be Zorro, but I also wanted to be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. I obviously had ideas above my station.
It didn’t matter the quality of the writing— Callie’s fantasies about her fictional heroes were entirely democratic.
Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.
One reason why in Hollywood we are so often inventing heroes is that real heroes are vexing.
When you're a kid, and you're a superhero lover, the holy trinity is Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, so to be able to take any of those and play with it is a huge joy.
As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.
I love comic books, comic book characters and superheroes.
I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read.
You eventually come to the conclusion that there's only so much you can do with these established characters, and you start wondering who among us will be the one to create the next 'Superman' or 'Batman' or 'James Bond' or next 'Lone Ranger.'
She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.
For Halloween, I've gone trick-or-treating as Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, and Robin Hood.
I have a reputation for doing superheroes, but I like all kinds of writing. In fact, hardly anybody knows this, but I've probably written as many humor stories as superhero stories.
I think there's a moral imperative when you're writing fictional heroes to give characters who somehow give us something to aspire to as opposed to dragging them down to our level.
I love reluctant heroes, all of that.
