Quotes About Secondary Characters

#1. Accept the unknown. There are no secondary characters. Each one is silhouetted against the sky. All have the same stature. Within a given story some simply occupy more space.

John Berger

#2. The life story of the five main characters and the secondary characters around them allows Jonathan Franzen to present the full impetus and extent of the world picture of the West at the end of the 20th century.

Batya Gur

#3. A kick-ass heroine to inspire us all, mixed with a fabulous cast of secondary characters and a plot that just won't quit. Day has hit a home run. [on Eve of Darkness ]

Kathleen Lawless

#4. It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we've explored some of the secondary characters' personal lives a bit more.

Matt Groening

#5. There are plenty of secondary characters that I had always hoped to write, but I don't know if it will ever happen. The way contracts work, if you leave one publishing house for another, the characters tend to stay with the previous publishing house.

Lori Foster

#6. It doesn't do to get attached to these secondary characters. It's not their story. They come and go, and when they go, they're gone for good.

Diane Setterfield

#7. Miss Lea, it doesn't do to get attached to these secondary characters. It's not their story.

Diane Setterfield

#8. Word to the wise writer ... never underestimate your secondary characters! But watch them ... they sneak off with stuff.

Ka Hancock

#9. The glory of the protagonist is always paid for
by a lot of secondary characters

Tony Hoagland

#10. The beauty of 'The Walking Dead' and the beauty of being on a television show for a while, is that, it's your backstory, it's part of what you are, it's what you carry with you every day.

Laurie Holden

#11. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now. I will be in it, if I'm the best man for the job, but it really is about creating characters and shows.

Jason Gann

#12. I'd like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off

Andy Rooney

#13. If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing ... then you are a writer.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#14. I'm not beholden to the confirmation of your prejudices; to be perfectly frank, the prospect of confining the female characters in my story to placid, helpless secondary places in the narrative is so goddamn boring that I would rather not write at all.

Scott Lynch

#15. I will fight untill the end

Breaking Benjamin

#16. Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.

Raymond Queneau

#17. Well tarnation you're a meanie pants aren't you?" ~Miss Mary~

Lucian Bane

#18. O.M.G. Lucca, what are you feeding her? Everyday I look at you, and I swear those twinnes must double in size. Look at your bump in this dress, how are you managing to cart that around? Rather you than me chubby." ~Hazel

S.J. Molloy

#19. I think there are few films out there that take motherhood seriously.

Emma Donoghue

#20. I get it, she's your rock. Your anchor in the storm. ~Bo~

Lucian Bane

#21. It is not the artistic aptitudes that are secondary sexual characters as some shams and shamans have said; it is the other way around: sex is but the ancilla of art.

Vladimir Nabokov

#22. There are lots of big books that have gay characters - or, more commonly, a gay character - in secondary roles, but seldom are their lives, and especially their sexual lives, on center stage.

Garth Greenwell