There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself.
I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.
A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.
For me it is really important to have a story with blood in the veins, there are bad tempers and good tempers.