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My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.
Manika
Character
Animal
Book
Money
First
Important
Lesson
Boo
Local
Sold
Books
Kid
Ten
Main
Main Character
Exciting
Adventures
Most
Also
Learned
Learns
Shelter
Donated
Children
Different
Stories
Story
Personally
Fifteen
Lessons
Each
Published
When you are reading about a book, you focus on the main character, of course. When you have something in common with them and connect with them, you remember the lessons they learned, and then you can apply them to your life. So you can live the best life you can.
Marley Dias
Life
Best
Character
You
Book
Remember
Focus
Reading
Live
About
Something
Main
Main Character
Learned
Course
Common
Them
Then
Your
Connect
Lessons
Apply
I don't know quite how a story develops in my head. It is a bit chaotic. If I am working on a series, one of the main characters at least is already in existence as well as some setting and minor characters. Finding the other main character can be a challenge. Sometimes this character already exists in a minor role in another book.
Mary Balogh
Character
Book
Sometimes
Challenge
Setting
Other
Chaotic
Bit
Characters
Finding
Minor
Some
Main
Main Character
Head
Develops
Know
Well
Another
How
Am
Least
Existence
Exists
Role
Quite
Story
Working
Series
Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that.
Melissa Bank
Character
Book
People
Say
People Say
Main
Main Character
Like
Friend
Get
Whenever
Mean
Doing field trips rather than simply researching online allows me to experience the story from the point of view of my main character; you can't get that by sitting at a desk.
Michelle Paver
Character
Me
You
Experience
Field
Trips
Online
Rather
Point
Point Of View
Main
Main Character
Simply
Doing
Than
Get
Sitting
Story
View
Researching
Desk
I'll tell you what I really enjoy. We all go to the movies, we all watch television, we know what they're about, how they work. When the main character is a cop or a spy, it's very exciting, but I also very much enjoy when the main characters are nobodies - a trucker.
Nathan Fillion
Work
Character
You
Enjoy
Television
Tell
Characters
About
Main
Main Character
Exciting
Know
Also
How
Go
Spy
Very
Movies
Much
Really
Cop
Watch
I couldn't bloody believe a prime-time TV show would have an Iraqi ex-Republican Guard torturer as a main character.
Naveen Andrews
Character
Believe
Guard
TV
Would
TV Show
Main
Main Character
Iraqi
Bloody
Show
I want to give every single character the dimensions and complexity of a main character.
Paul Rust
Character
Single
Every
Dimensions
Complexity
Give
Main
Main Character
Want
When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see.
Pearl Cleage
Character
You
Writing
First
Tell
See
Main
Main Character
First-Person
Author
Person
I would love to write a script where the main character is a woman. I know I can direct a film where the main character is a woman. I cannot write that film.
Philippe Falardeau
Love
Character
Woman
Would
Direct
Write
Main
Main Character
Know
Where
Cannot
Script
Film
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
Rachel Kushner
Character
Book
Every
Ways
Characters
Given
Misconception
Writer
Main
Main Character
Identify
Author
Really
Creates
Certain
When I work on a movie, I look at the script or watch the film, and I talk to my director or producers and make a plan: this is our main character; we need a theme for this plot. We need a love theme.
Ramin Djawadi
Work
Love
Character
Director
Our
Plot
Main
Main Character
Look
Talk
Make
Movie
Script
Theme
Plan
Producers
Film
Watch
Need
Good comedy films, if you listen to the score, the music is not trying to be funny. It's always, in a way, underscoring the tragedy and struggle of the main character.
Rich Moore
Funny
Music
Good
Character
You
Struggle
Comedy
Films
Way
Main
Main Character
Always
Score
Tragedy
Trying
Listen
As we like to say on 'This Is Us,' death is not a release. Our main character has never been alive for the entire run!
Ron Cephas Jones
Death
Character
Our
Say
Release
Alive
Run
Entire
Main
Main Character
Never
Like
Been
Us
I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that he doesn't care about anyone else, and it's very difficult for a main character - a lead character - in a movie to not care about anybody else.
Rowan Atkinson
Character
Care
Difficult
Think
Else
About
Tend
Main
Lead
Main Character
Lead Character
He
Him
Because
Does
Very
Anybody
Anybody Else
Movie
Anyone
Anyone Else
Episodic
Fun
Thing
Suit
When you don't have a main character that's flawed, I don't know how you relate to that person.
Sam Esmail
Character
You
Relate
Main
Main Character
Know
How
Person
Flawed
Yes, Charles Yu names his main character after himself. That main character, in fact, is both time-machine repairman and author of a book called 'How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe.'
Sarah Weinman
Character
Science
Book
Live
Universe
Charles
Both
Fact
Main
Main Character
Names
Safely
Himself
How
His
Yes
Author
In Fact
After
Fictional
I think 'The Searcher' is a departure from my first because it's less grounded in religion and is far more rooted in the mythic tradition: more of an existential thriller where the main character is actually the central mystery, and his journey is all about trying to figure himself out.
Simon Toyne
Journey
Character
Religion
First
Think
Out
About
More
Thriller
Mystery
Main
Mythic
Main Character
Himself
Because
Tradition
His
Existential
Trying
Departure
Where
Central
Far
Rooted
Figure
Less
Grounded
Searcher
Actually
I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.
Stieg Larsson
Character
People
Crime
Consequences
Pleases
Those
Abhor
Having
Main
Main Character
He
He Or She
She
Without
However
Normal
Normal People
Behave
Which
Social
Actions
Novels
Things
People are always thinking that I'm the main character in my books, but each one has been different, and sometimes they've been men.
Sue Miller
Character
People
Sometimes
Men
Thinking
Books
Has-Been
Main
Main Character
Always
Been
Different
Each
Each One
My favorite video game when I was a kid was this game called 'Metroid' and the main character of 'Metroid' was Samus. Samus has this body armor suit, helmet and everything except at the end of the game, the helmet comes off and it was revealed that Samus was actually a woman.
Laura Jane Grace
Character
Game
Woman
Everything
Kid
Favorite
Except
Main
Main Character
Armor
Revealed
Off
End
Video
Video Game
Body
Helmet
Actually
Suit
When I was little, I used to get a comic - 'Cheeky Weekly' - which was a weekly comic whose main character was Cheeky. I used to get 'Roy of the Rovers,' too.
Lee Mack
Character
Too
Weekly
Main
Main Character
Cheeky
Comic
Get
Which
Little
Used
Whose
Roy
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