The main character and the most important character are not always the same person - you have to know the difference. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Make sure your main characters are likeable. They can be flawed, but your readers need to be able to root for them. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
It's also very important to make sure that the main character and the player are completely in synch. — Sam Lake Copy Share Image
Think of every character as a main character. They believe they're the main characters in their stories. No one should just be… — Ben Edlund Copy Share Image
I'm always fascinated by losers. Also, in my "Foucault's Pendulum," the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
With a film, things constantly have to go up in the story, and you're constantly putting pressure on the main character. It… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, if you don't identify with the main characters, no television show will work. — Hiro Murai Copy Share Image
For my second novel, The Apothecary's Daughter, my editor encouraged me to think of another unusual profession for a woman to have.… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
I have tried to create main characters who are drastically different from the types who generally appear in crime novels. Mikael Blomkvist,… — Stieg Larsson Copy Share Image
I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality,… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
Remember, the essence of storytelling demands that we place our main characters on a path. A quest with something at stake, with… — Larry Brooks Copy Share Image
I moved to the east coast when everybody else was going to the west coast. I (then) chased it back toward the… — Drew Waters Copy Share Image
The life story of the five main characters and the secondary characters around them allows Jonathan Franzen to present the full impetus… — Batya Gur Copy Share Image
I try to use models at least for the main characters because of the nature of my art. I tend to focus… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I read [The Women's Room] in my 20s, and I was like, "I understand this now." And now I've become a mom… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
The editor, Stephen Segal, actually called me with the idea of creating an accordion book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"], and… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Danny Boyle has been a huge, has had a huge effect on me. His movies, early movies like Trainspotting and those movies.… — Fredrik Bond Copy Share Image
I first heard the term "meta-novel" at a writer's conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The idea is that even though each book in… — Carolyn Wheat Copy Share Image
A comic book is the opposite of a cartoon. In a cartoon, you want to simplify the idea, so when they look… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
Make sure your characters are worth spending ten hours with. That’s how long it takes to read a book. Reading a book… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
My stories usually begin with the characters and some elements of how power (personal, political, magical) functions in the world. The rest… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
It's not racism per se but the tyranny of normalcy - no: the tyranny of attractive normalcy. Which leads to loveable white… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
Generally I wouldn't accept work on projects where I didn't agree with the sensibilities behind the main character. — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
Hearing the faraway sounds of children at recess makes me understand that I am no longer life's main character. — Alec Sulkin Copy Share Image
We are all the main characters in our stories, so why not write the ending of how it should be ourselves... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Main characters never die in books. If they did, the story would be ruined, or over.” “Everybody is a main character to… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
“And why do the main characters always have to hate each other at the beginning of the movie? Like, hello, red flag.… — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Big Bang Theory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit prime time series, you know there's hope for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
If you're making a movie about the effects of time, you kind of have to engage time as the main character. — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
It's not most important to communicate myself on stage as it is to be as funny or interesting as I possibly can… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
My main characters are the most sunny, happy, optimistic, loving creatures on the face of the Earth. I couldn't be happier that's… — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
I don't think I ever intended specifically to write for the young adult market. It's just that when the idea for City… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was always very into secondary characters - things that weren't supposed to be the focus. The kind of… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
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