Protagonist Quotes

70 Protagonist quotes by 58 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist. — David McCullough
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 up… — Hideaki Anno
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
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
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… — Unknown Author
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
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
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
The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there… — Unknown Author
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
Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read? — David Markson
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
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
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
Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when… — Salvatore Quasimodo
PRIMAL TEARS is a novel of tremendous power. Passionate and erotic, at times tenderly lyrical, it confronts head-on, without flinching, brutal environmental and feminist politics.… — Kate Wilhelm
A conventional ‘success’ story is one where, with each next, the protagonist has more money, more respect, and more possessions. I’d like to suggest an… — Po Bronson
I don't judge in my books. I don't have to have the antagonist get shot or the protagonist win. It's just how it comes out.… — Elmore Leonard
Your protagonist is your reader’s portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be the world you’re… — Janet Fitch

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