Protagonist Quotes

With my earlier books, I got quite bored being with one protagonist all the way through. With the Alex Morrow books, I wanted to do something a bit more holistic, so there were lots of different points of view, and I wanted to look at aspects of crime that you don't tend to look at. Denise Mina
You Crime Books Way Bit Bored Something More Tend Through Points Morrow Look Protagonist Got Were Lots Quite Being Different Wanted Holistic Aspects View Earlier Alex
Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to be moving toward a crisis or climax, it has no true protagonist, and it's structured less like a TV show or a movie than a soap opera. Douglas Rushkoff
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With few exceptions, the publishing industry has come to a consensus: if a book has a young protagonist, and if its worldview is primarily interested in the questions that crop up when coming of age, then it's a young adult novel. Eliot Schrefer
Age Book Worldview Few Young Crop Exceptions Adult Primarily Come Protagonist Industry Coming Coming Of Age Questions Up Young Adult Interested Then Novel Publishing Consensus
The film's star, Eminem, doesn't appear to have a great deal of range, but he can play himself. Even though the protagonist is named Jimmy Smith, the thoughtful '8 Mile' is a raw version of the rapper's own story. Elvis Mitchell
Great Rapper Great Deal Own Jimmy Range Though Thoughtful Eminem He Raw Named Protagonist Smith Himself Deal Version Story Mile Appear Even Star Film Play
Just as Josef K, the protagonist of Kafka's 'The Trial,' awoke one day to discover that he had become part of some unfathomable legal carnival, we, too are frequently waking to discover that the rules of the digital game have once again profoundly changed. Evgeny Morozov
Day Game Legal Digital Become Too Changed Once Carnival Trial Rules One Day Some Had He Part Protagonist Frequently Discover Waking Just Unfathomable Again Kafka Profoundly
If my tale has to revolve around a protagonist and there is action around him, I can only imagine him to be someone from the police or the Army. Gautham Menon
Army Police Action Someone Only Tale Protagonist Him Around Revolve Imagine
Amid apocalyptic dystopia, 'Fahrenheit 451''s protagonist retains sparks of curiosity, creativity, and courage, and these human characteristics are the seeds of hope that can arise, phoenix-like, from civilization's ashes. Heidi Hammel
Hope Courage Creativity Characteristics Seeds Civilization Arise Protagonist Curiosity Human Ashes Dystopia Sparks
I was six years old when 'The Little Mermaid' was released in 1989 and was immediately struck by the fiery-maned, melodic-voiced, tail-swinging mermaid protagonist. She spoke to me on levels deeper than her father's oceanic kingdom. Janet Mock
Me Old Father Immediately Released Kingdom Struck Spoke Mermaid Protagonist She Years Than Six Little Deeper Her Levels
As you get older, you realize you're only the protagonist in your own story and a blip in someone else's life. Jenny Zhang
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Let's get right to it: On page 5 of Paul Murray's dazzling new novel, 'Skippy Dies,'... Skippy dies. If killing your protagonist with more than 600 pages to go sounds audacious, it's nothing compared with the literary feats Murray pulls off in this hilarious, moving and wise book. Jess Walter
Wise Book Hilarious Nothing More Feats New Dazzling Protagonist Audacious Sounds Go Off Than Get Dies Literary Moving Paul Page Pages Your Novel Compared Right
I love a kind of shambling outsider protagonist who always feels like they're 'other.' Jill Soloway
Love Other Kind Outsider Feels Like Protagonist Always Who
I've never read a script in which you are actively pulling for the protagonist in the beginning, but little by little, you lose that. John Lee Hancock
You Lose Beginning Never Protagonist Read In The Beginning Which Script Little Actively Pulling
First person allows deeper insight into the protagonist's character. It allows the reader to identify more fully with the protagonist and to share her world quite intimately. So it suits a story focused on one character's personal journey. However, first person shuts out insights into other characters. Juliet Marillier
Journey Character World Suits First Other Focused Out Characters Insight Insights More Share Protagonist Identify Reader First-Person However Person Personal Quite Story Fully Deeper Her
Each of my novels features a protagonist undertaking a difficult personal journey. On the way, each of these characters - mostly female - discovers something about herself and at the same time makes an impact on other people's lives. Juliet Marillier
Time Journey People Difficult Other Herself Way Characters Impact About Something Features Protagonist Mostly Female Makes Undertaking Discovers Personal Same Same Time Each Novels Lives
The downside of doing a multi-protagonist movie is that you don't get to service each character as you would if they were the central protagonist of the movie. Justin Simien
Service Character You Would Protagonist Doing Were Get Movie Central Each Downside
As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down. Kami Garcia
Life Love Needs Journey You Experience World Hero Everyday Life Important Before Action Down Think Everyday Dive Idea Protagonist Reader Upside Upside Down Turn Much Early
Like the protagonist of her 2006 novel, 'Love and Other Impossible Pursuits,' Ayelet Waldman is a Jewish redhead who attended Harvard Law School and is madly in love with her husband. But the obvious similarities end there. Katie Hafner
Love Law School Impossible Husband Other Harvard Madly Law School Similarities Pursuits Attended Like Protagonist Obvious Redhead End Who Novel Her Jewish
I write what I like to read, and I enjoy love triangles in YA and adult fiction - not to mention in other media like TV, opera, theatre, and even in video games! I relish when dark and compelling characters compete for our protagonist's heart. The doubts, the uncertainty - the jealousy! - can be breathtaking. Kresley Cole
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I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy. Lena Dunham
Love Me Women Amazing Think Kind Something Guy Write Protagonist Sort Parts Male Frontier Really Next
Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel. Leslie Fiedler
Books Memoir Area He Between Protagonist Wrote Calls His Often Novel Novels Henry Miller Gray Gray Area
You can, I think, have a quiet and steady protagonist and not run the risk of terminal dullness as long as exciting things happen to them and around them, and crime is the ideal genre for making this come about. Liz Williams
You Crime Long Think Run About Steady Risk Exciting Exciting Things Ideal Terminal Come Protagonist Genre Around Making Dullness Quiet Happen Them Things Things Happen
In some ways, every character we write, especially the protagonist, is some version of ourselves, as a writer/director, even if they aren't the same gender. Lulu Wang
Character Gender Every Ways Ourselves Some Write Protagonist Version Same Even
Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition. Maajid Nawaz
Other Only Protagonist Blinds Dogma Opposition
We're always steered towards what is good in the canon by a male perspective. I like to do plays with a female protagonist who finds her way through. My way is unusual. Marianne Elliott
Good Perspective Way Finds Steered Through Towards Like Protagonist Unusual Female Always Male Canon Who Her Plays
Like my fictional protagonist Tom Thorne, I love country. My tastes go back a bit further than his do, and I still listen to stuff from the late '70s and early '80s. Mark Billingham
Love Country Late Back Bit Further Stuff Like Protagonist Still Go His Than Tastes Listen Fictional Tom Early
Nobody just flops a complete 'Doc Martin' script on the desk. They all have to be taken apart and all the apologizing taken out. Because it's hard to have a protagonist that doesn't really like anyone and nobody really likes him; it's a hard premise to start from. Martin Clunes
Complete Out Martin Taken Nobody Like Protagonist Likes Him Because Just Anyone Script Apart Really Apologizing Hard Premise Flops Start Desk
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