Main Characters Quotes
Main Characters Quote of the day
The main character of any living system is openness.
From start to finish, this movie is obviously about God. He is the main character. How is is possible that we live as though it is about us?
Make sure your main characters are likeable. They can be flawed, but your readers need to be able to root for them.
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.
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.
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.
The Big Bang Theory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit prime time series, you know there's hope for the world.
My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my novels are females.
At the end of the day, if you don't identify with the main characters, no television show will work.
Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.
There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we are the main characters.
"Big Bang Theory" focuses on main characters who in other shows would only be auxiliary players hewing to stereotype: The gawky nerd who lives next door and says oddball things.
I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am white and my main characters are white, outsiders at sea in the "Dark Continent."
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.
I learned a lesson that I keep learning over and over, and that is that the most fun is to watch our main characters interact with each other. The most fun comes from their tight interaction.
I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I'd love to do one where one of the kids dies, or one of the main characters dies. I love for those things to have a little bit more tragedy.
My problem has been with purely digital films. I feel the danger there is that the kind of short-cuts you end up having to take are the ones that are most telling in the main characters.
To be honest, I don't think of any of my characters as minor characters - they're all the main characters in a story that I don't necessarily get to tell.
One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.
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.
I'm always fascinated by losers. Also, in my "Foucault's Pendulum," the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more interesting than the winners.
