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
“Main characters never die in books. If they did, the story would be ruined, or over.” “Everybody is a main character to… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
We are all the main characters in our stories, so why not write the ending of how it should be ourselves... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Big Bang Theory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit prime time series, you know there's hope for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“And why do the main characters always have to hate each other at the beginning of the movie? Like, hello, red flag.… — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are… — Stephen King 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 should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality,… — Patricia Highsmith 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 have tried to create main characters who are drastically different from the types who generally appear in crime novels. Mikael Blomkvist,… — Stieg Larsson Copy Share Image
The life story of the five main characters and the secondary characters around them allows Jonathan Franzen to present the full impetus… — Batya Gur Copy Share Image
I try to use models at least for the main characters because of the nature of my art. I tend to focus… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I moved to the east coast when everybody else was going to the west coast. I (then) chased it back toward the… — Drew Waters 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
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
I think we're always trying to avoid tropes. And I think that "Game of Thrones" has almost made killing people a cliche.… — Miles Millar 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
If you see young tulkus when they're with other little monks, it's like in a Broadway show or something where the main… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I want a future where women and girls get to be the subject of their own sexuality, not the object of somebody… — Jaclyn Friedman Copy Share Image
A is for Alibi, my first book, was published in 1982. As it happened the next couple of books took place in… — Sue Grafton 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
I needed to create some dramatic tension to sustain the interest of the audience. For instance, the boy in the film is… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
Once I became an adult and started to pursue writing as a professional career, I realized my main characters were always young… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
If you're making a movie about the effects of time, you kind of have to engage time as the main character. — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
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
Hearing the faraway sounds of children at recess makes me understand that I am no longer life's main character. — Alec Sulkin Copy Share Image
Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves. — Haruki Murakami 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
At the end of the day, if you don't identify with the main characters, no television show will work. — Hiro Murai 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
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
It's also very important to make sure that the main character and the player are completely in synch. — Sam Lake Copy Share Image
Think of every character as a main character. They believe they're the main characters in their stories. No one should just be… — Ben Edlund Copy Share Image
I'm always fascinated by losers. Also, in my "Foucault's Pendulum," the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
As a hero, you have to play it straight. The audience is going to live through you, so you have to be… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
"Fish Tank" [my favorite woman-directed film] by Andrea Arnold. The film is so beautifully shot, and I love the raw energy of… — Nicole Nielsen Horanyi Copy Share Image
To play one of the main characters in it, it's not the kind of thing you don't do. Oh, I'd rather not… — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
At the beginning, everything's possible and everybody gets equal time, all the characters, all the ideas. You don't know who's going to… — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
Even on a large ensemble where their parts are relatively small - because having ten main characters obviously affects their screen time… — John Hillcoat Copy Share Image
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