My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Make sure your main characters are likeable. They can be flawed, but your readers need to be able to root for them. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Rob Horton, the main character of The Tiger Rising, was a secondary character in an adult short story I wrote, and he… — Kate DiCamillo 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
Writing a new film about cereal killers. Not serial killers, cereal killers. The main character can eat two, three boxes at a… — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
I read [The Women's Room] in my 20s, and I was like, "I understand this now." And now I've become a mom… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
Remember, the essence of storytelling demands that we place our main characters on a path. A quest with something at stake, with… — Larry Brooks Copy Share Image
I wanted to take a damaged individual in a damaged society with damaged relationships between nations and take a look at how… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main… — Isadora Duncan 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
Le lecteur, lui non plus, ne voit pas les choses du dehors. Il est dans le labyrinthe aussi. The reader [as well… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image
There wasn't much said, but I was thinking, perhaps unkindly - not unkindly,but on - inaccurately of Theodore Dreiser's "Carrie," when the… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
It's not most important to communicate myself on stage as it is to be as funny or interesting as I possibly can… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
By the time a writer comes onto a project (if they're being hired as a contractor) the main character has usually been… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I wouldn't think of my characters' moralities at all. And I think I identify fully with every main character I've written about… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I used my daughter's crayons for each main character. One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story, and the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In a film, you always try to have your main character be changed by the end. — Frederic Tcheng Copy Share Image
I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
A comic book is the opposite of a cartoon. In a cartoon, you want to simplify the idea, so when they look… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
My problem has been with purely digital films. I feel the danger there is that the kind of short-cuts you end up… — Rick Heinrichs 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 don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character. — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image