When one hears the argument that marriage should be indissoluble for the sake of children, one cannot help wondering whether the protagonist… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The nature of the universe probably depends heavily on who is the actual protagonist. Lately I've been suspecting it's one of my… — Wil McCarthy Copy Share Image
The label YA actually means nothing except that the protagonists, or some of them, are young. Publishers like it because it is… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman.… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
Better to be the architect of something you can endorse than the placard waving protagonist standing in the rain. — Mr. Wrestling Copy Share Image
The depth of any story is proportionate to the protagonist's commitment to their goal, the complexity of the problem, and the grace… — Steve House Copy Share Image
I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One… — William Gibson 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
In my career, I've often played the protagonist or the hero of the movie, and there are so many rules inherent to… — Ryan Phillippe Copy Share Image
'What It Is' was based on this class I've been teaching for 10 years - I wanted to write a book about… — Lynda Barry 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
What helped me a lot was that I chose an American lead protagonist, because that liberated a lot from my own knowledge.… — Karan Bajaj 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 protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
Of course I consider myself a Jewish writer - I am one! All of the protagonists in my five books have been… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As such, anything is always possible, even if your protagonist is a plumber. But it's the possibility, the limitless possibilities, of any… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
I'm not a citizen of America, I cannot vote. But it is fascinating because there's a new kind of protagonist out there… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a… — Uma Krishnaswami Copy Share Image
While books provided me with some escape from the mental and physical horrors of my early life, they were unreliable. Many times… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
In prose, leaps of logic can be made while the protagonist thinks about things and arrives at conclusions. Even with voiceover, there's… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
The lead character in 'Yennai Arindhaal' is like an extension of the protagonists of 'Kaakha Kaakha' and 'Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu.' — Gautham Menon Copy Share Image
Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read? — David Markson 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
In fact, Guerra based his story on the diaries of two explorers, German Theodor Koch-Grunberg and American Richard Evans Schultes. There work… — Tom Cole Copy Share Image
If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday'… — Walter Kirn 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
In general, I've found female protagonists more intriguing to work with than males. I cherish women and have always preferred their company,… — Tom Robbins 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
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
When my daughter was born, I was reading a lot of children's books, and there weren't any characters who looked like her.… — Martellus Bennett 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
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
We tend to think of orphans as being the protagonist of stories we read when we're kids, and yet here you are:… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Speaking generally, I think it's useful to acknowledge explicitly the power imbalance between a journalist and the protagonists in a story about… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
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