It is in your DNA to love a good story. You know, neat…

We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

— Barry Ritholtz

TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for…

— Barry Ritholtz

“war. Or, rather, wars. Not one, not two, but many wars, both big and small, just and unjust, wars with shifting casts of supposed…

— Khaled Hosseini

I was always fascinated by the Torah, the Bible, in terms of story telling: heroes and villains, morality and flaws. There's no better epic.…

— Nina Tassler

Basketball games - and seasons - make great narratives; they feature distinct acts, heroes and villains, and guaranteed resolutions.

— Anthony Doerr

I was very interested in what happens to the husband when his wife goes missing, and how quickly they can be turned into heroes…

— Gillian Flynn

“The sky pulsed with stars. Some people say it makes them lonesome when they stare up at the night sky. I can't imagine why.…

— Kenneth Oppel

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

— Sidney Sheldon

With 'Invincible', I wanted to create my own version of the Marvel or DC universe, with my own heroes and villains.

— Austin Grossman

Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of fragments, positions…

— Israel Shenker

“There are eaters and the eaten. The tiger does not resent the deer that gets away. The doe does not resent the tiger that…

— Devdutt Pattanaik

“Free folk and kneelers are more alike than not, Jon Snow. Men are men and women women, no matter which side of the Wall…

— George R.R. Martin

Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise…

— Elia Kazan

“He needed time to adjust to real life, where heroes and villains could not be told apart by their looks or their accents, where…

— Laila Lalami

I love playing all kinds of roles. I hope it doesn’t sound too pretentious, but I always feel human nature is like a piano,…

— Tom Hiddleston