Protagonists Quotes

I think I like reluctant protagonists.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

You don't need to like your protagonists.

— Anson Mount

Protagonists traditionally are active characters.

— Lulu Wang

I do my job. The protagonists are the players.

— Javi Gracia

You look like a protagonist.

— Rainbow Rowell

Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.

— Pauline Kael

My music had two protagonists, me and the Greek people.

— Mikis Theodorakis

“We are all protagonists, each and every one of us.”

— Dalton Frey

I try to have something in common with my protagonists, especially when I'm writing in the first person.

— Emily Giffin

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

But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.

— David Baldacci

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

— Norman Mailer

Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.

— Jonathan Stroud

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

— Roger Ebert

I always find something in common with my protagonist, particularly when I write in the first person.

— Emily Giffin

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

Employing women as my primary protagonists has allowed me to step outside of myself, to distance myself from my own personality, far…

— Tom Robbins

“I read the story of Red Riding Hood today. I think the wolf was the most interesting character in it. Red Riding…

— L.M. Montgomery

Since so many romantic comedies vary little in their storyline, the success or failure of such movies depends largely on whether we…

— Mariella Frostrup

It seems to me that most good protagonists are both clever and resourceful. They are intelligent and can fix things, both little…

— Keren Woodward

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

Once you have a situation that is fresh, then you sort of believe in it and it becomes normal. So you do…

— Paul Schrader

With me it started as a child, going to the theater and being totally transported but also walking out of the theater…

— Oscar Torre

Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to…

— Douglas Rushkoff

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

It's not my business to remedy deaths! It's my business to tell stories. Lyra and the other heroines didn't come with placards…

— Philip Pullman

At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a…

— Julia Bacha

Shamefulness is always a huge part of my characterizations. I like protagonists that reveal, either through "honesty" in their various thought processes…

— Joshua Mohr

The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It…

— David Mamet

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

Girlchild . . . unfolds a compelling, layered narrative told by a protagonist with a voice so fresh, original, and funny you'll…

— Mameve Medwed

The definition of horror is pretty broad. What causes us "horror" is actually a many splendored thing (laughs). It can be hard…

— Bryan Fuller

Whether it's Mrs Dalloway's lost love or Thérèse Raquin's burgeoning horror, The Paying Guests reminds us of every great novel we've gasped…

— Charlotte Mendelson

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

This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would…

— Strom Thurmond

Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize…

— Frank B. Wilderson III

Storytelling is an act of cruelty. We are cruel to our characters because to be kind is to invite boredom, and boredom…

— Chuck Wendig

The Hawk and the Dove is a wonderful idea for a book, wonderfully carried out. Nicholas Thompson has used illuminating new material…

— James Fallows