Protagonist Quotes
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As a writer, I am not opposed to killing off villains. That's not the kind of later biting in the ass I prefer for my protagonist.
— Gabbo De La Parra
What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book?
— Julian Barnes
There has to be a protagonist who has to overcome challenges, and there will be a race to finish.
— Ashwin Sanghi
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
— Carlos Fuentes
In the Metaverse, Hiro Protagonist is a warrior prince.
— Neal Stephenson
I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist's shoes.
— Nicholas Jarecki
Observe, Chagatai, the protagonist of every work of fiction is Humanity, and the antagonist is God.
— Ada Palmer
Your protagonist suffers from mental illness, but that fact is not central to the
— Leslie J. Anderson
I've always wanted to play a soldier and I'd never taken on a character where I'm the happy-go-lucky protagonist. I've played a lot of jerks recently.
— Jesse McCartney
I don't judge in my books. I don't have to have the antagonist get shot or the protagonist win. It's just how it comes out. I'm just telling a story.
— Elmore Leonard
You don't really understand an antagonist until you understand why he's a protagonist in his own version of the world.
— John Rogers
This is the time to remember that I'm the protagonist in my own story, facing every challenge with grace and wit.
— Maya Van Wagenen
Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read?
— David Markson
The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
Much of our inner dialogue is this constant reaction to experience by a selfish, childish protagonist.
— Dan Harris
By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signaled that everything is on the table.
— Brian K. Vaughan
The real protagonist of scientifiction was science itself, conquering the dark forces of irrationality and ignorance.
— Steve Silberman
I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy
— Alison Bechdel
The saddest of the tales are those which have no words reserved for the protagonist's Mother to speak!
— Ashfaq Saraf
Don't act like a protagonist Raghu, be human," she said. "Like Salman?" I asked and chuckled, she didn't react though. — Kavipriya Moorthy
We are each the protagonist of our life story.
— E.L. Tenenbaum
I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.
— David McCullough
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
... just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.
— Miriam Toews
Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous.
— Cheyenne Jackson
I feel sorry for all the men in my future 'cause they'll all be held up to Julien (Grenier/WISHBONE protagonist)and I doubt any of them will cut it.
— Brooklyn Hudson
For me, a great story is one in which the protagonist faces unimaginable odds; where the stakes are high that failure constitutes a disaster.
— Michael Boatman
Putting a piece of you in your protagonist adds depth and merges the worlds of fiction and reality.
— Adam Steven Page
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
Aurora, you're a child, live like one, don't act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity.
— Noorilhuda
My female protagonist will not be this promiscuous, beautiful, dark-haired, thin lady. It will be a plump, blond, healer and so forth.
— Isabel Allende
When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.
— Patrick DeWitt
People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
— Daniel Clowes
Julie went to her hotel room window to check that the Campo, the central square of Siena, Italy, was still out there.
— Candida Martinelli
I am a big fan of the web comic 'Strong Female Protagonist,' illustrated by Molly Ostertag.
— Alethea Kontis
Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.
— David Mamet
We may think of ourselves as static anti-heroes, but in reality we're dynamic protagonists just waiting for our courage to kick in.
— Justin Alcala
I love a kind of shambling outsider protagonist who always feels like they're 'other.'
— Jill Soloway
I think in any movie really the two most interesting parts are the protagonist and the antagonist.
— Cung Le
Thus the protagonist of this Dream of mine is ooze, here and forever call'd Oozymandias the King.
— William T. Vollmann
Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.
— Leslie Fiedler
If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they'll forgive you just about everything else.
— Andy Weir
If Life is the ultimate work of Fiction,does that make god the greatest Protagonist?
— Diganta Sarkar
The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream.
— David Mamet
Even in death, her mother was winning.
— Noorilhuda
I always think once you have the lead protagonist, you cast around that character.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
If you keep kosher, the protagonist of your meal is not you; it is God.
— Lauren F. Winner
If you can get to be you, why can't I get to be me?
— Noorilhuda
You are the protagonist and author of your life's story.
— Jessica Hagy