I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
I always think once you have the lead protagonist, you cast around that character. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition. — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
“You look like a protagonist.’ She was talking as fast as she could think. ‘You look like the person who wins in… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much about a guy who achieves… — Walter Becker Copy Share Image
I don't believe in distinguishing between single-heroine films or those that have more than one female protagonist. — Pooja Batra Copy Share Image
If my tale has to revolve around a protagonist and there is action around him, I can only imagine him to be… — Gautham Menon Copy Share Image
“As a writer, I am not opposed to killing off villains. That's not the kind of later biting in the ass I… — Gabbo De La Parra Copy Share Image
I would put Harry Kane in with Batistuta. All that is happening to him, he deserves. He is the protagonist of his… — Mauricio Pochettino Copy Share Image
Whenever the protagonist of the film becomes bigger than the hero of the film, the film is bound to become a hit. — Satish Kaushik Copy Share Image
“The folktale world is oriented positively toward its protagonist; a folktale is defined by the hero's triumph: magic weapons and helpers are,… — Darko Suvin Copy Share Image
I gravitated to Judy Blume early on. 'Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing' was my favorite, with a realistic and relatable protagonist… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
“And you look like a protagonist.” She was talking as fast as she could think. “You look like the person who wins… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
'Black Swan' does what Hollywood movies have always done - it spends its energies on getting some surface things right while getting… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but… — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
“We often don't react well to change. Consequently it won't seem right if your hero is perfectly capable right from the start… — Rob Parnell Copy Share Image
“This was the writer's true doppelgänger, I thought; not some invisible imp of the perverse who watched you from the shadows, periodically… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Femininity, yes, effectively there is more in The First Man, not only in terms of women but stylistically, in its elements, the… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
“At the moment, I think we each genuinely believed ourselves to be the protagonist, and the other a naive and pardonable walk-on… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
I think in any movie really the two most interesting parts are the protagonist and the antagonist. — Cung Le Copy Share Image
In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Readers of fantasy fiction actually imagine having the abilities of the villains more often then the protagonist. Bravo writers!” — C. Toni Graham Copy Share Image
“I want to write a short story where the protagonist is a globe, and all the secondary, or “flat” characters, are all… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I absolute adore epic journeys that require a protagonist to fight for every victory in the hopes of finding triumph. — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
It has been very rare to see a black woman as a protagonist. And also as three-dimensional people - mathematicians, mothers, wives,… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people… — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
Things have character. So I'm interested in how the character of the thing might function as a protagonist in what isn't a… — Jessica Stockholder Copy Share Image
We "chicks" have munched our popcorn while romantic comedies became just comedies, and then each female protagonist got recast for Mathew McConaughey… — Emma McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
When I first began writing In the Country of Men all I had was the voice of the protagonist. He intrigued me… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
“Your Writing Teacher @WritingChief If u don't get ur protagonist dirty, ur readers will get bored. Readers are wild, cliff-jumping, mud-wrestling savages.… — Writing Chief Copy Share Image
My female protagonist will not be this promiscuous, beautiful, dark-haired, thin lady. It will be a plump, blond, healer and so forth. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
In any novel I write, I have in my mind several things which happened in the protagonist's past which I never mention… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
In some ways, every character we write, especially the protagonist, is some version of ourselves, as a writer/director, even if they aren't… — Lulu Wang Copy Share Image
“The beauty of fantasy is that it allows the protagonist to pass through fear to come to know this different reality and… — Kate Milford Copy Share Image