Protagonist Quotes
70 quotes by 62 authors
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The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Ostwald was a great protagonist and an inspiring teacher. He had the gift of saying the right thing in the right way. When we consider…
— Wilder Dwight Bancroft
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This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would interpose the Government…
— Strom Thurmond
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Any claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction to the protagonist.
— David Mamet
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I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective as my protagonist.…
— Ian Rankin
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Cliché openings in fantasy can include an opening scene set in a battle (and my peeve is that I don’t know any of the characters…
— Kristin Nelson
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I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.
— David McCullough
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Eva is a story of repetition. It is a story where our protagonist faces the same situation many times over and determinedly picks himself back…
— Hideaki Anno
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Treefingers is important, it's the point in which our protagonist crosses the icy tundra that is how to disappear completely to reach the island of…
— Thom Yorke
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When I first began writing In the Country of Men all I had was the voice of the protagonist. He intrigued me and my desire…
— Hisham Matar
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Open Secret boasts a nifty plot and, in Coroner Fortin, a fascinating protagonist who will likely be around for a long time. Deryn Collier is…
— Giles Blunt
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Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final soliloquy…
— Frank B. Wilderson III
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Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but…
— Cassandra Clare
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In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were moved…
— Christopher Darden
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The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there…
— Jill Paton Walsh
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I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.
— Miriam Toews
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Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read?
— David Markson
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If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any…
— Donald Miller
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A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications…
— Clifford Irving
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Tokyo Heist is a fast-paced, exotic reading adventure, a story where The da Vinci Code meets the wildly popular manga genre! Author Diana Renn infuses…
— Alane Ferguson
Who Wrote These Protagonist Quotes
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