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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 quite intimately. So it suits a story focused on one character's personal journey. However, first person shuts out insights into other characters.

Juliet Marillier

Character, Journey, Stories

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This dazzling, unput-downable debut novel proves beyond a doubt that Dan Wells has the gift. His teenage protagonist is as chilling as he is endearing. More John Wayne Cleaver, please.

F. Paul Wilson

Teenage, Doubt, Chill

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In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education

George Gilder

Enterprise, Company, New Products

George Gilder (1985). “The Spirit of Enterprise”, Simon & Schuster

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John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a promised land in the Western [United States]; the perfidy of banks in foreclosing on poor people's homes; and the insurgent urge of the book's protagonist, Tom Joad, to speak truth to police power. 'Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy,' Tom promises, 'I'll be there.' In Salinas, Calif., Ferguson, Mo., or Staten Island, N.Y., Tom's truth goes marching on.

Richard Corliss

Dream, Book, Home

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To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and the protagonists are teens. The difference is in the readers.

Charles de Lint

Book, Writing, Differences

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The nature of the universe probably depends heavily on who is the actual protagonist. Lately I've been suspecting it's one of my cats.

Wil McCarthy

Cat, Depends, Universe

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In general, I've found female protagonists more intriguing to work with than males. I cherish women and have always preferred their company, reveling in their perfumes, their contours, their finer-grained sensibilities, lunar intuitions, nurturing instincts and relatively unfettered emotions--although I'm certainly not unaware that there are plenty of neurotic, uptight, stupid women in the world.

Tom Robbins

Stupid, Intuition, Males

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Once you have a situation that is fresh, then you sort of believe in it and it becomes normal. So you do end up with protagonists that haven't been in other movies before.

Paul Schrader

Believe, Normal, Ends

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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I hate the whole übermensch, superman temptation that pervades science fiction. I believe no protagonist should be so competent, so awe-inspiring, that a committee of 20 really hard-working, intelligent people couldn't do the same thing.

David Brin

Hate, Believe, Hard Work

"David Brin: Dialog With the Future". Locus Magazine Interview, www.locusmag.com. March 1997.

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Is it unprecedented for two goalkeepers employed in a match comprising seven goals to be the fixture's most competent protagonists?

Pete Gill

Soccer, Football, Two

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Each of my novels features a protagonist undertaking a difficult personal journey. On the way, each of these characters - mostly female - discovers something about herself and at the same time makes an impact on other people's lives.

Juliet Marillier

Character, Journey, Impact

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You don't need to like your protagonists.

Anson Mount

Needs, Like You

"Anson Mount Talks Hell on Wheels Season 2, the Best Part of the Job, Walking the Line Between Hero and Villain and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 19, 2012.

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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.

Ted Dekker

Writing, Journey, Discovery

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Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Religious, Struggle, Political

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People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.

Monica Ali

People, Want

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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 isn't the woman.

Ann Beattie

Character, Men, Interesting

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The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.

Tayari Jones

Literature, Hallmark, American Literature

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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 the reader wonder what he or she would do in the protagonist's place.

Rick Riordan

Successful, Moral, Driving

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While books provided me with some escape from the mental and physical horrors of my early life, they were unreliable. Many times the protagonists suffered terribly and then died at the end.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Book, Horror, Ends

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It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context.

Christopher Darden

Reading, Thinking, People

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Consider the different narrative styles within the story, and the glee with which the "moralistic narrator" celebrates Aschenbach's fall - maybe, then, this is a hostile verdict and the international fame is warranted after all (given that Mann modeled his protagonist so closely on himself, it would be quite odd if he had intended Aschenbach's literary inferiority to be a fixed part of the interpretation).

Philip Kitcher

Fall, Style, Narrators

Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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Eva is a story of repetition. It is a story where our protagonist faces the same situation many times over and determinedly picks himself back up again. It is a story of the will to move forward, even if only a little. It is a story of the resolve to want to be together, even though it is frightening to have contact with others and endure ambiguous loneliness. I would be most gratified if you found enjoyment in these four parts as it takes the same story and metamorphoses it into something different.

Hideaki Anno

Loneliness, Moving, Together

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Any claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction to the protagonist.

David Mamet

Drama, Independent, Plot

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Hwang Jung-eun is one of the brightest stars of the new South Korean generation - she's Han Kang's favourite, and the novel we're publishing scooped the prestigious Bookseller's Award, for critically-acclaimed fiction that also has a wide popular appeal. She stands out for her focus on social minorities - her protagonists are slum inhabitants, trans women, orphans - and for the way she melds this hard-edged social critique with obliquely fantastical elements and offbeat dialogue.

Deborah Smith

Stars, Awards, Focus

Source: thequietus.com

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Cliché openings in fantasy can include an opening scene set in a battle (and my peeve is that I don’t know any of the characters yet so why should I care about this battle) or with a pastoral scene where the protagonist is gathering herbs (I didn’t realize how common this is).

Kristin Nelson

Character, Battle, Gathering

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