People Quote by Monica Ali Download Open image “People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.” — Monica Ali ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare People Protagonists Want Writing
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person.… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I always find something in common with my protagonist, particularly when I write in the first person. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I think as readers we put ourselves in the protagonist's place because we want to be like that person. That's why sometimes we don't… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
We have a writing process that's very much you try to create the character in a complicated way and then you let the story… — Aaron Ehasz Copy Share Image
Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what their novels… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I don't want to get hung up on what 'people,' that nebulous mass, think about me. That's the way to unhappiness, I think. — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
“If God wanted us to ask questions, he would have made us men (page 80).” — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
“And so they entwined their lives to drink from the pools of each other’s sadness. From these special watering holes, each man drew strength.” — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
“Her words were as sharp as an eyeful of sand. She never raised her voice. It was the kind of voice that never needed… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
She touched his hand for the last time. "Oh, Karim, that we have already done. But always there was a problem between us. How… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
“Tevis being childless meant you felt a little sorry for her, and a bit jealous. Probably the same way she felt about you.” — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
Sometimes I look back and I am shocked. Everyday of my life I have prepared for success, worked for it, waited for it, and… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
“The air was hot and wet, as if it had absorbed the sweat of countless bodies. It dripped also with scandal.” — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
“Nishi's sister, who was sixteen years old, had gone for a "holiday" in Sylhet and returned six months later with a husband and a… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
