Main Character Quotes
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Main Character Quotes & Sayings
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Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.
— Haruki Murakami
Self-command is the main elegance.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
America has but one main problem the character of the men and women it shall produce. — Calvin Coolidge
When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see.
— Pearl Cleage
That's the main thing, looking for interesting characters, good directors, and experiences where you're growing and learning.
— Nicholas Hoult
I write both fiction and nonfiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later.
— David A. Adler
If the main character's not in jeopardy - physical, psychological, emotional, whatever - then you don't have any tension, and you don't have a story.
— Stephen Graham Jones
All people live in a fantasy in which they are the main character.
— Keiichi Sigsawa
He lied with a smile that paralyzed reason." [Abby Chandlis - main character of The List]
— Steve Martini
The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Everybody is a main character to someone...
— Amy Harmon
The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else's story.
— Don Miguel Ruiz
If you're making a movie about the effects of time, you kind of have to engage time as the main character.
— Ryan Gosling
If you don't care about the main character in a novel, then you probably won't care about the story either.
— Giuseppe Bianco
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
— Elizabeth Moon
I couldn't bloody believe a prime-time TV show would have an Iraqi ex-Republican Guard torturer as a main character.
— Naveen Andrews
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The reader [as well as the main character] does not view the work from outside. He too is in the labyrinth.
— Alain Robbe-Grillet
Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.
— J. Michael Straczynski
Writing a main character is very important to me. Because each time I create one, it feels like another piece of me in a different world.
— B.A. Gabrielle
I'm not a sympathetic main character. My quirks are not lovable. I am not clumsy. I am not overwhelmed by life. I am not unlucky in love.
— Rahul Kanakia
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
— Albert Schweitzer
The main character of any living system is openness.
— Ilya Prigogine
The Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character.
— J.I. Packer
The first thing, the main thing, about how I work is I need to understand the character.
— Marion Cotillard
Your main character not only needs a goal, she need an inner desire.
— Jill Williamson
I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.
— Peter Mayhew
Make sure your main characters are likeable. They can be flawed, but your readers need to be able to root for them.
— Janet Evanovich
Hearing the faraway sounds of children at recess makes me understand that I am no longer life's main character.
— Alec Sulkin
For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice of the story itself.
— Scott Bradfield
The main character and the most important character are not always the same person - you have to know the difference.
— John Irving
Truthfulness is the main element of character.
— Brian Tracy
You're the main character of your life," Jacie said. "You're too important to die. That's how everybody feels.
— Jodi Lynn Anderson
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.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
I can resist anything except temptation. Ren, main character in Sherrilyn Kenyon's novel Time Untime.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
There's no great movie where you haven't been emotionally connected to the main character.
— Harald Zwart
Stories in which the player doesn't inhabit the main character are difficult for games to handle.
— Hideo Kojima
She's the main character in her story, just like I'm the main character in mine.
— Marisa De Los Santos
The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.
— Saul Bellow
I saw the main character played by Mads Mikkelsen, and he's amazing. Hannibal had that going for it.
— Michael Pitt
There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.
— George Bernard Shaw
plot is how the dramatic events (action) in a story change and/or transform the main character (emotion) over time in a meaningful way (theme).
— Martha Alderson
Writing a new film about cereal killers. Not serial killers, cereal killers. The main character can eat two, three boxes at a time.
— Dov Davidoff
Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?
— J.M. Coetzee
We don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character.
— Brian Lindstrom
Someone should write a book where the main character slowly falls in love with the reader.
— Unknown
Hating a main character for being too weak is like expecting a human to be able to do everything. Stories aren't all sunshine and rainbows.
— B.A. Gabrielle
