Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Fifty-First State displays Lisa Borders' emotional acuity, first-rate skills as a storyteller, and profound empathy not… — Christopher Castellani Copy Share Image
All my main characters are people I'd love to sit around having coffee with. They are people who will tell you honestly… — Katherine Center Copy Share Image
Most people are middle class. Most people do wish their lives were better than they are. And I think by making my… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
I often feel like that with the way I portray myself I come off as looking much worse than any of the… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
I thought Korra was 17 so Mike and I have to get our stories straight. The main characters are in their late… — Bryan Konietzko Copy Share Image
With all the main characters that I write, it's always very important to me that they have good and bad aspects of… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm stressed and I'm sick of things and I need to forget about them for a while, so in Harry Potter… — Evanna Lynch Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a perfect person in this world. We all must become the main characters or the stars… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Margaret Cavendish was one of the people who came up in the course. That was when I started thinking about her as… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
Gettting to know your characters is so much more important than plotting. Working out every detail of your story in advance, especially… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
We are all the main characters in our stories so we should right the ending of how it should be ourselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I saw the main character played by Mads Mikkelsen, and he's amazing. Hannibal had that going for it. — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
We don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character. — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
Generally I wouldn't accept work on projects where I didn't agree with the sensibilities behind the main character. — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
I feel like when you're dealing with your main character, it has to be relatable and feel grounded, and that's the kind… — Alia Shawkat Copy Share Image
To be honest, I don't think of any of my characters as minor characters - they're all the main characters in a… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
[The main character] is in a forever-growing process. I feel the movie [everybody Loves Somebody] did that very well and not finishing… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
Beware 'good' main characters who have a limited repertory of culturally acceptable feelings, while your evil bastards have a full range of… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
The main character and the most important character are not always the same person - you have to know the difference. — John Irving Copy Share Image
I think the female first-person is still dismissed, demonized, especially if the book does not end on an empowering note, especially if… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
With a film, things constantly have to go up in the story, and you're constantly putting pressure on the main character. It… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
Something I was adamant about was that the movie [Everybody Lovess Somebody] wouldn't end with, oh, marriage saved [the main character]. They're… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Be sure not to discuss… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Danny Boyle has been a huge, has had a huge effect on me. His movies, early movies like Trainspotting and those movies.… — Fredrik Bond Copy Share Image
Make sure your characters are worth spending ten hours with. That’s how long it takes to read a book. Reading a book… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know the… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Probably the only thing that isn't great is the time when I know I'm very close to finishing the actual writing of… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
We actually needed the memory - if you see the film - as a very different kind of a plot device of… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
What helped me a lot was that I chose an American lead protagonist, because that liberated a lot from my own knowledge.… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
I might spend 100 pages trying to get to know the world I'm writing about: its contours, who are my main characters,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It's not racism per se but the tyranny of normalcy - no: the tyranny of attractive normalcy. Which leads to loveable white… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
I've never before had the same main character appear in consecutive novels, but I liked Yancy and his attitude, and I was… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
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