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
Identify the moral dilemma driving the novel. the successful novel will haunt a reader because it deals with some ethical or moral… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Treefingers is important, it's the point in which our protagonist crosses the icy tundra that is how to disappear completely to reach… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and… — Ron Fournier 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
In 'Nier Automata', the protagonists are androids, not humans, and that's very common in a Science Fiction story. — Yoko Taro 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
The nature of the universe probably depends heavily on who is the actual protagonist. Lately I've been suspecting it's one of my… — Wil McCarthy Copy Share Image
Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
It's not my business to remedy deaths! It's my business to tell stories. Lyra and the other heroines didn't come with placards… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
In male-driven [films], the protagonist is not the person who's necessarily in harms way. There's a sense that they're going to figure… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
I never regard my characters, my protagonists, as personifications. It's not that I sit by my desk and I pick up a… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education - not in the… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
First person allows deeper insight into the protagonist's character. It allows the reader to identify more fully with the protagonist and to… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
The depth of any story is proportionate to the protagonist's commitment to their goal, the complexity of the problem, and the grace… — Steve House Copy Share Image
The label YA actually means nothing except that the protagonists, or some of them, are young. Publishers like it because it is… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Better to be the architect of something you can endorse than the placard waving protagonist standing in the rain. — Mr. Wrestling Copy Share Image
In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman.… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
When one hears the argument that marriage should be indissoluble for the sake of children, one cannot help wondering whether the protagonist… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The lead character in 'Yennai Arindhaal' is like an extension of the protagonists of 'Kaakha Kaakha' and 'Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu.' — Gautham Menon Copy Share Image
In prose, leaps of logic can be made while the protagonist thinks about things and arrives at conclusions. Even with voiceover, there's… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a… — Uma Krishnaswami Copy Share Image
While books provided me with some escape from the mental and physical horrors of my early life, they were unreliable. Many times… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read? — David Markson Copy Share Image
[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Of course I consider myself a Jewish writer - I am one! All of the protagonists in my five books have been… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
I'm not a citizen of America, I cannot vote. But it is fascinating because there's a new kind of protagonist out there… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
As such, anything is always possible, even if your protagonist is a plumber. But it's the possibility, the limitless possibilities, of any… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
Any claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
For me, a great story is one in which the protagonist faces unimaginable odds; where the stakes are high that failure constitutes… — Michael Boatman Copy Share Image
I like when people question if the characters are really villains or protagonists. These types are very interesting to write about. — Jack Higgins Copy Share Image
I really get fired up with female protagonists. I can really feel the difference in myself when I am writing a script… — Linda Woolverton Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be — Hjalmar Branting Copy Share Image
A lot of narrative films leave you no space for anything else but eating popcorn. I want to go in the complete… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
Though the inspiration for my songs almost always comes from things that are happening around me, I am definitely not always the… — Thalia Zedek Copy Share Image
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![“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. ... [But] we accept irony through a device…” quote by Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/aa9/haruki-murakami-21_accepting_the-sense-of-tragedy-according-to-aristo_23796.jpg)
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