Protagonists Quotes

You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.

That's what protagonists do. They work hard, they have a conflict, they overcome the obstacles.

I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.

But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.

Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world of the film becomes enriched. It's not the size of the thing, but the detail.

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be.

The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them.