“A book always tells more about the author than the protagonist himself.” — Sneha Mehta Copy Share Image
Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a dummy. I make movies and not realize until afterwards, 'Oh, I'm the protagonist.' — Bobcat Goldthwait Copy Share Image
“the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters” — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
I always find something in common with my protagonist, particularly when I write in the first person. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“You're the absolute protagonist of this book, very well; but do you believe that gives you the right to have carnal relations… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“You don't really understand an antagonist until you understand why he's a protagonist in his own version of the world.” — John Rogers Copy Share Image
I think there has to be an empathic strike between the reader and the protagonist. There has to be something said or… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
The thriller protagonist is really just us in extremis. He or she is this individual who is placed under enormous pressure, has… — David Farr Copy Share Image
My intent is not to inflame Muslims but to entertain readers of great thrillers. At the end of the day, I want… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
We're always steered towards what is good in the canon by a male perspective. I like to do plays with a female… — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and… — John Green Copy Share Image
American and Vietnamese characters alike leap to life through the voice and eyes of a tenyearold girl-a protagonist so strong, loving, and… — Mitali Perkins Copy Share Image
“You aren't going to shoot me. You're just a Love Interest." "No, I'm not." I lower the gun and aim it at… — Cale Dietrich Copy Share Image
On reading the first part of Anthony Powell's four-part masterpiece, 'A Dance to the Music of Time,' I was struck by one… — Rebecca Pidgeon Copy Share Image
To become a villain, you had to have become disillusioned, and in order to become disillusioned you had to have been passionate… — Matthew Davis Copy Share Image
Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
The first thing our Chapman screenwriting professors taught us was that all stories share one thing in common: there is a protagonist,… — Matt Duffer Copy Share Image
“I know, I know…there’s something cliché about that. The heroine initially wanting to clobber a protagonist male, but later realizing that he’s… — Angela N. Blount Copy Share Image
Race is the true protagonist of the American novel. Our most popular classic fictions have known this, from 'Moby Dick' to 'Beloved;'… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
In my career, I've often played the protagonist or the hero of the movie, and there are so many rules inherent to… — Ryan Phillippe Copy Share Image
“My writer friends and I talk about the kinds of writers we are and some of us are plungers and some of… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
“From there, a more difficult period began. Even the villains, the world's worst people, the one percent, what have you, imagine themselves… — Alex Kudera Copy Share Image
“Does the protagonist deny the irreconcilable conflict? Does she lie about it- to herself and others? Does she make a choice between… — David Mura Copy Share Image
“Damn, damn, damn," she said. "I never said why I like you, and now I have to go." "That's okay," he said.… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“How long are you going to let yourself be dragged passively by the plot? You had flung yourself into the action, filled… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Katniss isn't the kind of hero we're used to seeing in fiction. She reacts more than she acts, she doesn't want to… — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
“I wanted to be Feinberg's student, but I didn't know how to go about it. Since it was premature for formal arrangements… — Emanuel Derman Copy Share Image
“(Tania Unsworth) writes of a time when she was a “girl of eleven, with a flashlight under the covers, devouring The Chronicles… — Tania Unsworth Copy Share Image
There are very few games, especially on the scale of 'Horizon,' that have a sole protagonist that is female. — Ashly Burch Copy Share Image
My thing is whether my film is small, I am still playing the protagonist. — Rahul Roy Copy Share Image
We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
