When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know the… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
The only way to change the world is to change the main character of our story - the one we believe that… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
I would love to play a main character and then play different characters as well. I would want for it to be… — Brandy Norwood Copy Share Image
I think the female first-person is still dismissed, demonized, especially if the book does not end on an empowering note, especially if… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Le lecteur, lui non plus, ne voit pas les choses du dehors. Il est dans le labyrinthe aussi. The reader [as well… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image
There wasn't much said, but I was thinking, perhaps unkindly - not unkindly,but on - inaccurately of Theodore Dreiser's "Carrie," when the… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Probably the only thing that isn't great is the time when I know I'm very close to finishing the actual writing of… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
By the time a writer comes onto a project (if they're being hired as a contractor) the main character has usually been… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
Never open your story with a character thinking, I advise my students. As a further precaution, don’t put a character in a… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he's writing it — or at least taping it, or even… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
We actually needed the memory - if you see the film - as a very different kind of a plot device of… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
When I'm following what a character does in a book I don't have to think about my own life. Where I am.… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
“Many authors base their main characters off of themselves. One may wonder if it's so with Tenny. The answer is no. All… — E.J. Norris Copy Share Image
Margaret Cavendish was one of the people who came up in the course. That was when I started thinking about her as… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
Gettting to know your characters is so much more important than plotting. Working out every detail of your story in advance, especially… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
My problem has been with purely digital films. I feel the danger there is that the kind of short-cuts you end up… — Rick Heinrichs Copy Share Image
If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation. In this play, I had a strong main character… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
I used my daughter's crayons for each main character. One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story, and the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Rob Horton, the main character of The Tiger Rising, was a secondary character in an adult short story I wrote, and he… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The acting style that has emerged from HD, because of the contrast and how sharp the picture is, it's more neutrally played.… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
I wanted to take a damaged individual in a damaged society with damaged relationships between nations and take a look at how… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years… — Victoria Hanley Copy Share Image
A Thousand Pardons began at the beginning. I wanted it to be one continuous, almost breathless kind of story. In order to… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
I wouldn't think of my characters' moralities at all. And I think I identify fully with every main character I've written about… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Fifty-First State displays Lisa Borders' emotional acuity, first-rate skills as a storyteller, and profound empathy not… — Christopher Castellani Copy Share Image
All my main characters are people I'd love to sit around having coffee with. They are people who will tell you honestly… — Katherine Center Copy Share Image
Most people are middle class. Most people do wish their lives were better than they are. And I think by making my… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
I often feel like that with the way I portray myself I come off as looking much worse than any of the… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
Even on a large ensemble where their parts are relatively small - because having ten main characters obviously affects their screen time… — John Hillcoat Copy Share Image
What helped me a lot was that I chose an American lead protagonist, because that liberated a lot from my own knowledge.… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm stressed and I'm sick of things and I need to forget about them for a while, so in Harry Potter… — Evanna Lynch Copy Share Image
I've never before had the same main character appear in consecutive novels, but I liked Yancy and his attitude, and I was… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a perfect person in this world. We all must become the main characters or the stars… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I thought Korra was 17 so Mike and I have to get our stories straight. The main characters are in their late… — Bryan Konietzko Copy Share Image
With all the main characters that I write, it's always very important to me that they have good and bad aspects of… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
![“Le lecteur, lui non plus, ne voit pas les choses du dehors. Il est dans le labyrinthe aussi. The reader [as well as the main character] does not view the work from outside. He too is in the labyrinth.” quote by Alain Robbe-Grillet](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d22/alain-robbe-grillet-35989_character_le-lecteur-lui-non-plus-ne-voit-pas-les_1976067.jpg)
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