Protagonists Quotes

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Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to be moving toward… — Douglas Rushkoff
There has to be a protagonist who has to overcome challenges, and there will be a race to finish. — Ashwin Sanghi
The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you… — Haruki Murakami
As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents. — Philip Pullman
Respect your characters, even the Âminor ones. In art, as in life, everyone is the hero of their own particular story; it is worth thinking… — Sarah Waters
The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and… — Janet Fitch
I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy — Alison Bechdel
You look like a protagonist. — Rainbow Rowell
Better to be the architect of something you can endorse than the placard waving protagonist standing in the rain. — Mr. Wrestling
Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them. — Jonathan Stroud
I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels -… — Orhan Pamuk

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