Bores Quote by Patrick deWitt Download Open image “When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.” — Patrick deWitt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bores Protagonist Trouble You Your
I think that inevitably, the trouble our characters go through is a kind of metaphor for what's happening in ourselves. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
“Never let something you want to happen in a story tie the hands of your characters and especially not your villain. If your hero… — Alex Woolfson Copy Share Image
“Word to the wise writer...never underestimate your secondary characters! But watch them...they sneak off with stuff.” — Ka Hancock Copy Share Image
When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and… — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black… — Anonymous 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
“I had nowhere to go and did not wish to be seen by anyone for fear they would recognize my sadness and so for… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
“Beware of the plygs of Colorado City, Arizona. They have no cups of coffee for the likes of you.” — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for everyone. And… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe box in… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
'The Sisters Brothers' started out as a little bit of dialogue between these two men who became Eli and Charlie Sisters. — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation. — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in westerns, or there's a minimal amount of… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
Redtail was a brave warrior. His loyalty to ThunderClan could never be doubted. I always relied on his judgment, for it bore witness to… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which,… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores. — Geoffrey Madan Copy Share Image
Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability. His specialty is rhythm songs which he renders in an undistinguished whine; his phrasing, if it can… — Jack Gould Copy Share Image
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be the most… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
