Protagonists Quotes

91 quotes by 84 authors

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
Show me a novelist â€“ or, indeed, a reader â€“ who wasnâ€™t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive reading and Iâ€™llâ€¦… — Charlotte Mendelson
A conventional â€˜successâ€™ story is one where, with each next, the protagonist has more money, more respect, and more possessions. Iâ€™d like to suggest an… — Po Bronson
We are the protagonists of our love story, not the spectators. — Matt Walsh
I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope it will serve… — James Nachtwey
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 readerâ€™s portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be the world youâ€™re… — Janet Fitch
When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened... when I… — Ian Fleming
The protagonist of Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours doesnâ€™t make it easy for us, channeling as he does Barry Hannah and Denis Johnson… — Jim Shepard
As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something. — David Mamet
Identify the moral dilemma driving the novel. the successful novel will haunt a reader because it deals with some ethical or moral dilemma that makes… — Rick Riordan
Is it unprecedented for two goalkeepers employed in a match comprising seven goals to be the fixture's most competent protagonists? — Pete Gill
You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger. — Nelson DeMille
Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character… — Ann Beattie
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist. — Carlos Fuentes
You don't need to like your protagonists. — Anson Mount
Each of my novels features a protagonist undertaking a difficult personal journey. On the way, each of these characters - mostly female - discovers something… — Juliet Marillier
First person allows deeper insight into the protagonist's character. It allows the reader to identify more fully with the protagonist and to share her world… — Juliet Marillier
The more complex and overwhelming the threat to a protagonist, the better the opportunity for the author to create a compelling conflict and a dramatic… — Terry Brooks
But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes. — David Baldacci

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