Doctor Mengele is such a powerful character historically, as powerful as Nazism itself, so these subjects always tend to be the protagonists.… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
PRIMAL TEARS is a novel of tremendous power. Passionate and erotic, at times tenderly lyrical, it confronts head-on, without flinching, brutal environmental… — Kate Wilhelm Copy Share Image
Everyone likes a bit of variety. I'm sure none of my readers only want to read about anti-heroes or villainous protagonists any… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Ostwald was a great protagonist and an inspiring teacher. He had the gift of saying the right thing in the right way.… — Wilder Dwight Bancroft Copy Share Image
How do you get the protagonists and antagonists together, in the same space, without somebody having to die? So, we ended up… — Chris Albrecht Copy Share Image
We knew the Syrian situation was complex and there were lots of divisions, particularly on the side of the opposition... This is… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Respect your characters, even the minor ones. In art, as in life, everyone is the hero of their own particular story; it… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
A conventional ‘success’ story is one where, with each next, the protagonist has more money, more respect, and more possessions. I’d like… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
The violence for me is never meant to be entertaining. It's meant to hurt the characters and I'm trying to show the… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
I hate the whole übermensch, superman temptation that pervades science fiction. I believe no protagonist should be so competent, so awe-inspiring, that… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Each of my novels features a protagonist undertaking a difficult personal journey. On the way, each of these characters - mostly female… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
My protagonists are my mother's voice and the mind I had when I was thirteen. — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
I think boys don't always like to read books with female protagonist - I don't even know what to say about this. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people. — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people… — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
The more complex and overwhelming the threat to a protagonist, the better the opportunity for the author to create a compelling conflict… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Tokyo Heist is a fast-paced, exotic reading adventure, a story where The da Vinci Code meets the wildly popular manga genre! Author… — Alane Ferguson Copy Share Image
In the modern era, it isn't enough to write, you must also be the Writer, with a capital 'W,' and play your… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that… — Neve McIntosh Copy Share Image
American and Vietnamese characters alike leap to life through the voice and eyes of a tenyearold girl-a protagonist so strong, loving, and… — Mitali Perkins Copy Share Image
One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
The only thing that makes me put down a book is if the characters are boring, or the situations aren't fraught with… — Michael Boatman Copy Share Image
It can stand in the way of narration in cases where we want the protagonist to actually go through some kind of… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
Your protagonist is your reader’s portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then… — Clifford Irving Copy Share Image
My writing derived from the conviction I conceived during my college years: one should lead one's life as if one were the… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
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