I do think that I have a more flexible view of the interactions between people, and between human and non-human protagonists, humans… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I find myself writing protagonists who do feel pretty cut off from others but who want to make connections and aren't very… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to play a soldier and I'd never taken on a character where I'm the happy-go-lucky protagonist. I've played a… — Jesse McCartney Copy Share Image
In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education — George Gilder Copy Share Image
My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
Is it unprecedented for two goalkeepers employed in a match comprising seven goals to be the fixture's most competent protagonists? — Pete Gill Copy Share Image
With the crime novels, it's delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It's like having a fictitious family. — John Banville Copy Share Image
At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a… — Julia Bacha Copy Share Image
It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Mindi Scott has a real talent for getting inside her protagonist's head. She sketches out Coley's story in grand swathes, and then… — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Every novel deals with social problems. It can't help it because the protagonist must come in conflict with his group. So the… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Tunisia's responsibility, and especially that of its political and intellectual elites, is enormous. All the protagonists of the nation's social, cultural, economic… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
It's pretty easy to think of the idea of a story, and maybe even to write a scene or two, but understanding… — Dennis Green Copy Share Image
When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
We may be the protagonists of tragedy, but we are also the heroes of our most beautiful and thrilling experiences. — Shin Kyung-sook 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
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
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
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
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
I believe young children in particular enjoy witnessing the survival of youthful protagonists against terrible odds. I think it's gratifying to the… — Robert Paul Weston Copy Share Image
What led me to that was I have never - I mean, I watch movies and I don't care who is the… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Creativity is basically a feminine process. I'm convinced that we have in our soul, everybody, this masculine side and this feminine side.… — Paulo Coelho 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
Mr. Rogers would not make a good protagonist of a narrative film. He's without conflict, he's too far along on his journey… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
Free will is something that people struggle with so much, but it's very simple to me. Carl Jung said at the same… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“... Wickard's novel colorfully illuminates the two sychronized protagonists, each displaying profound characteristics: Sami has trouble adjusting to her new life and… — Douglas Wickard Copy Share Image
You know, you're not aware of it, but you're following the action of the film through the body of the protagonist, you… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
The Internet is the hope of an integrated world without frontiers, a common world without controlling owners, a world of opportunities and… — Laura Chinchilla Copy Share Image
We tend to think of orphans as being the protagonist of stories we read when we're kids, and yet here you are:… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Doctor Mengele is such a powerful character historically, as powerful as Nazism itself, so these subjects always tend to be the protagonists.… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
Speaking generally, I think it's useful to acknowledge explicitly the power imbalance between a journalist and the protagonists in a story about… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
PRIMAL TEARS is a novel of tremendous power. Passionate and erotic, at times tenderly lyrical, it confronts head-on, without flinching, brutal environmental… — Kate Wilhelm Copy Share Image
Everyone likes a bit of variety. I'm sure none of my readers only want to read about anti-heroes or villainous protagonists any… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Cliché openings in fantasy can include an opening scene set in a battle (and my peeve is that I don’t know any… — Kristin Nelson Copy Share Image
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