Protagonist Quotes

When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.

— Patrick deWitt

Every antagonist is a protagonist in his own right.

— Puneet Issar

You look like a protagonist.

— Rainbow Rowell

It feels great to be given a protagonist role.

— Kirti Kulhari

I prefer being the protagonist.

— Satyadev Kancharana

At Juve, I learned to always want to win and be a protagonist.

— David Trezeguet

People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.

— Daniel Clowes

“So Rainstorm was pretty much a video game protagonist.”

— Anonymous

“Thus the protagonist of this Dream of mine is ooze, here and forever call'd Oozymandias the King. ”

— William T. Vollmann

“And you look like a protagonist...You look like the person who wins in the end”

— Rainbow Rowell

Eric Carter is a more raw, more emotional protagonist. He's a bit of an Everyman.

— Corey Hawkins

We must always give preference to the collective. We have to play as Brazil. Nobody is a lone protagonist.

— Gabriel Jesus

As main protagonist, there's so much that you have to prove.

— Vikrant Massey

My female protagonist will not be this promiscuous, beautiful, dark-haired, thin lady. It will be a plump, blond, healer and so forth.

— Isabel Allende

In any novel I write, I have in my mind several things which happened in the protagonist's past which I never mention…

— Roger Zelazny

In some ways, every character we write, especially the protagonist, is some version of ourselves, as a writer/director, even if they aren't…

— Lulu Wang

We've all seen lots of stories about a young protagonist having adventures, and usually they're all boys, [and] there is sometimes a…

— Brian K. Vaughan

Everyone talks to their dog, and then in your mind the dog talks back. A talking dog can provide the words that…

— Mike Mills

“The beauty of fantasy is that it allows the protagonist to pass through fear to come to know this different reality and…

— Kate Milford

'Five, Six, Seven, Nate!' opens on my 13-year-old protagonist packing up a duffel bag and bidding his Midwestern town goodbye, heading off…

— Tim Federle

“Thackeray is careful not to present a protagonist who is malevolently evil from birth; to trace a figure like this is unrewarding…

— Martin J. Anisman

It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me…

— Christopher Darden

You couldn't escape the literary atmosphere in our home. I grew up as a Britisher. I played a protagonist of every nationality…

— Satya Bhabha

I wanted to be in a costume drama. Yes, I like them. I enjoy the leap of imagination and the richer-than-modern-language they…

— Paterson Joseph

It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If…

— Ashwin Sanghi

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

With my earlier books, I got quite bored being with one protagonist all the way through. With the Alex Morrow books, I…

— Denise Mina

Femininity, yes, effectively there is more in The First Man, not only in terms of women but stylistically, in its elements, the…

— Catherine Camus

“This was the writer's true doppelgänger, I thought; not some invisible imp of the perverse who watched you from the shadows, periodically…

— Michael Chabon

“How long are you going to let yourself be dragged passively by the plot? You had flung yourself into the action, filled…

— Italo Calvino

“From there, a more difficult period began. Even the villains, the world's worst people, the one percent, what have you, imagine themselves…

— Alex Kudera

“Does the protagonist deny the irreconcilable conflict? Does she lie about it- to herself and others? Does she make a choice between…

— David Mura

“Damn, damn, damn," she said. "I never said why I like you, and now I have to go." "That's okay," he said.…

— Rainbow Rowell

“My writer friends and I talk about the kinds of writers we are and some of us are plungers and some of…

— Franny Billingsley

“The viewpoint character in each story is usually someone trapped in a living nightmare, but this doesn't guarantee that we and the…

— Francis M. Nevins

The protagonist of Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours doesn’t make it easy for us, channeling as he does Barry Hannah…

— Jim Shepard

I never actually sexually attacked anybody. But I'm a writer, too, and I was always trying to figure out a way to…

— Willis Earl Beal

As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something.

— David Mamet

There has to be a protagonist who has to overcome challenges, and there will be a race to finish.

— Ashwin Sanghi

We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA.

— Roger Ebert