All my main characters have got bits of me, bits of my family, bits of my friends. — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
We don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character. — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
Ground the main character in stupidity. Hire a good cast and a good crew. — Jon Glaser Copy Share Image
In a film, you always try to have your main character be changed by the end. — Frederic Tcheng Copy Share Image
“What is the story in 1 Samuel 17? Who are the two main characters? I” — Heidi Kreider 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
There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“It’s just funny, isn’t it? How the main characters never know about the adventures they’re about to go on.” — Brittainy C. Cherry 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
Stay humble to the craft and never forget how much it actually takes to be the main character of a documentary. — Nicole Nielsen Horanyi Copy Share Image
There's no great movie where you haven't been emotionally connected to the main character. — Harald Zwart 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
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 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
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
My main characters are the most sunny, happy, optimistic, loving creatures on the face of the Earth. I couldn't be happier that's… — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
I don't think I ever intended specifically to write for the young adult market. It's just that when the idea for City… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was always very into secondary characters - things that weren't supposed to be the focus. The kind of… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
I do think that in the near future, if it hasn't happened already, people will be able to use technology to design… — Don DeLillo 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
For my second novel, The Apothecary's Daughter, my editor encouraged me to think of another unusual profession for a woman to have.… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
I first heard the term "meta-novel" at a writer's conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The idea is that even though each book in… — Carolyn Wheat 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
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
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
Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
My stories usually begin with the characters and some elements of how power (personal, political, magical) functions in the world. The rest… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
The editor, Stephen Segal, actually called me with the idea of creating an accordion book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"], and… — Theodora Goss 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
“All people live in a fantasy in which they are the main character.” — Keiichi Sigsawa Copy Share Image
Yes, I do feel the world revolves around me. After all, I am the main character of my own life. — Stefanie Schneider 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
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
That's just part of being in 'X-Men.' There's, like, 20 main characters, and 15 of them are household names, so obviously you're… — Aaron Stanford 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
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
Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
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