“Thus the protagonist of this Dream of mine is ooze, here and forever call'd Oozymandias the King. ” — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“And you look like a protagonist...You look like the person who wins in the end” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
We must always give preference to the collective. We have to play as Brazil. Nobody is a lone protagonist. — Gabriel Jesus Copy Share Image
Eric Carter is a more raw, more emotional protagonist. He's a bit of an Everyman. — Corey Hawkins Copy Share Image
A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
I think as readers we put ourselves in the protagonist's place because we want to be like that person. That's why sometimes… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
I often meet directors who want to cast me as the protagonist, but if the rest of the characters are not strong… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
I think boys don't always like to read books with female protagonist - I don't even know what to say about this. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
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… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Philip Roth has made a cottage industry of unlikable characters, but compared with Mickey Sabbath, the furious and profane protagonist of 'Sabbath's… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
“And here, of course, we come to the one occupation of a female protagonist in literature, the one thing she can do,… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
If I have a male protagonist, it's a studio movie, and if it's a female protagonist, it's an indie movie. That's just… — Mike White Copy Share Image
There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
It can stand in the way of narration in cases where we want the protagonist to actually go through some kind of… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
It's important for people of colour to have the opportunities to play characters that are as nuanced - as three-dimensional, as human… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
The only thing that makes me put down a book is if the characters are boring, or the situations aren't fraught with… — Michael Boatman Copy Share Image
I like animal sidekicks. They seem to be a pretty cool trope of post-apocalyptic fiction - just because if you're going to… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
“A circular plot structure, often seen in adventure novels and quest fantasies, is a narrative devise involving setting, character, and theme. Typically… — Carl M. Tomlinson Copy Share Image
The protagonist of Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours doesn’t make it easy for us, channeling as he does Barry Hannah… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
“The viewpoint character in each story is usually someone trapped in a living nightmare, but this doesn't guarantee that we and the… — Francis M. Nevins Copy Share Image
“She looks like mist on a foggy morning, Her hair falls perfectly below her shoulders, like they can't have enough of brushing… — Jiji Tharayil Copy Share Image
I never actually sexually attacked anybody. But I'm a writer, too, and I was always trying to figure out a way to… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
“There is one final point, the point that separates a true multivolume work from a short story, a novel, or a series.… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
There has to be a protagonist who has to overcome challenges, and there will be a race to finish. — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Since Dhanush is the protagonist of my first film, he proved to be my lucky charm. — Aishwarya R. Dhanush Copy Share Image
I was born in a tiny place in Ivory Coast, so being a protagonist in this life is a dream. — Gervinho Copy Share Image
If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they'll forgive you just about everything else. — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature. — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
'Aashiqui 2' and 'Yeh Jawaani' were hit films, especially the former film in which I was the protagonist. — Aditya Roy Kapur Copy Share Image
Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous. — Cheyenne Jackson Copy Share Image
I'm fine with playing the protagonist's mother, mother-in-law or friend - as long as my role is well-written. — Kirron Kher Copy Share Image
