Main Characters Quotes

• Remember, the essence of storytelling demands that we place our main characters on a path. A quest with something at stake, with something to do, to achieve, to learn, and to change.

  Larry Brooks

  Character, Essence, Quests

  Larry Brooks (2011). “Story Engineering”, p.77, Writer's Digest Books

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• Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he's writing it — or at least taping it, or even sketching it. Or all three. Probably the closest analogy to the ideal would be a film director/producer who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least a main character.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Character, Cameras

  "The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time".

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• ... We must remember that there's more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as many stories as there are main characters, and each of these stories has to have multiple plots to keep it going - blood and bone, nerve and tissue, forgotten longing and unknown events.

  Walter Mosley

  Character, Writing, Blood

  Walter Mosley (2009). “This Year You Write Your Novel”, p.28, Hachette UK

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• Yes, I do feel the world revolves around me. After all, I am the main character of my own life.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Character, Deep Thought, World

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• Beware 'good' main characters who have a limited repertory of culturally acceptable feelings, while your evil bastards have a full range of vivid, passionate feelings.

  Bill Johnson

  Character, Evil, Feelings

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• If you're making a movie about the effects of time, you kind of have to engage time as the main character.

  Ryan Gosling

  Character, Kind, Effects

  Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com. February 2, 2011.

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• The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else’s story.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Character, Stories, Way

  "‘Four Agreements’ Author Don Miguel Ruiz: Don’t Take Things Personally". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over.

  Will Hobbs

  Writing, Character, Magic

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• [The main character] is in a forever-growing process. I feel the movie [everybody Loves Somebody] did that very well and not finishing off as "a woman's life ends when she finds the right guy".

  Karla Souza

  Character, Forever, Guy

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I think the female first-person is still dismissed, demonized, especially if the book does not end on an empowering note, especially if the main character is perceived as unlikeable, or too privileged.

  Kate Zambreno

  Book, Character, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Think of every character as a main character. They believe they're the main characters in their stories. No one should just be an obstacle.

  Ben Edlund

  Believe, Character, Thinking

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• Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that.

  Melissa Bank

  Book, Character, Mean

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• To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.

  J. J. Abrams

  Character, Interesting, Flaws

  "Inside the mind of J. J. Abrams". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. March 8, 2007.

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• The villains are all parts of me. For years I've been wondering what it would be like if all those negative elements were forced onto the main character's side. I can understand a character with that kind of anger.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Character, Years, Negative

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• There is no such thing as a perfect person in this world. We all must become the main characters or the stars of our lives. We are all different and start differently. But from whatever is our circumstances, it is very important that we find the opportunities to try out what we want to do.

  Goo Hye Sun

  Stars, Character, Opportunity

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• [At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric telegraphs, and rifled guns, and so forth; and knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg don't turn into a crocodile, and two or three other little things that no one will know till the coming of the Cocqcigrues.

  Charles Kingsley

  Knowledge, Character, Science

  Charles Kingsley (1872). “The Water-babies a Fairy Tale for a Land-baby by the Rev. Charles Kingsley”, p.385

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• Everybody is a main character to someone

  Amy Harmon

  Character

  "Making Faces". Book by Amy Harmon, 2013.

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• In the christian view, the ultimate evidence for the existence of God is Jesus Christ. If there is a God, we characters in his play have to hope that he put some information about himself in the play. But Christians believe he did more than give us information. He wrote himself into the play as the main character in history, when Jesus was born in a manger and rose from the dead.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.135, Penguin

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• There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Book, Character, Fiction

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• The main character of any living system is openness.

  Ilya Prigogine

  Character, Openness

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• When writers don't know what to do with a character, they build up the supporting cast and universe to kind of hide that fact. After a while, you can no longer see the character for the underbrush. When that happens, you need to bring out the weed-whacker to clear some of that away so you can focus on the main character.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Weed, Character, Focus

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• Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Book, Character, People

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• Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my favorite stories.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Character, Mad

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• I want a future where women and girls get to be the subject of their own sexuality, not the object of somebody else’s. That we are the main characters in our own play, not props in somebody else’s—which is how women’s sexuality is treated now. Whatever the outside attitudes about sexuality it’s always about somebody’s agenda for us, and I want a world where we can have our own.

  Jaclyn Friedman

  Girl, Attitude, Character

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• Sometimes I`m stressed and I`m sick of things and I need to forget about them for a while, so in Harry Potter you`re taken to this wonderful imaginary world where everything is so different. But also the main characters are completely real and modern so you can relate to them.

  Evanna Lynch

  Real, Taken, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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