Unlikeable Quotes

#1. I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party.

Zoe Heller

#2. I don't agree with the idea that my characters are unlikeable.

Noah Baumbach

#3. Make no mistake, every child has his own light, no matter how difficult or defiant or unlikeable he or she might seem.

Nancy Rose

#4. I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge.

Steve Coogan

#5. Hickory dickory dock my daddy's nuts from shellshock.

Dalton Trumbo

#6. The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable.

Kate Zambreno

#7. We grew up watching Woody Allen and Albert Brooks movies, and we see this neurotic, annoying, unlikeable male at the center of a story, and people root for him anyway. I think that's really what we have been craving as women is the hero who doesn't look perfect and doesn't act perfectly.

Jill Soloway

#8. I think the female first-person is still dismissed, demonized, especially if the book does not end on an empowering note, especially if the main character is perceived as unlikeable, or too privileged.

Kate Zambreno

#9. There is no possible source of evil except good.

Saint Augustine

#10. Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at one remove from my consciousness.

Terry Eagleton

#11. Spaceflight, especially in the Mercury spacecraft, clearly wasn't going to be much like flying an airplane.

Henry Spencer

#12. It's relatively easy to create an ambiguous character. Any conglomeration of likable and unlikeable traits, chosen at random, will result in an ambiguous character. Getting an audience to deeply identify with a character, on the other hand, is one of the hardest things in the world to do.

Matt Bird

#13. It's a challenge of to write a narrator who is doing something that is really unlikeable and morally questionable. A lot of times, you read a book because you like the character, you are cheering for the character; you want the best for the character.

Alissa Nutting

#14. I think what's most fun is playing someone who's sort of selfish and in a lot of ways unlikeable, but there's this really big heart underneath it that you get little glimpses of.

David Walton

#15. The Baron took his cane and put it under the doctor's chin. "You are a very unlikeable man. In my true form, I'd think you as little more than spooge on the bottom of my shoe.

Daniel Younger

#16. I left Earth three times and found no other place to go. Please take care of Spaceship Earth.

Wally Schirra

#17. God is kind, but he is not soft. He takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life change.

Max Lucado

#18. I think one's person's unlikeable is another's lovable.

Tom Barbash

#19. Do we have Steve Jobs to thank for the iPod and iPod shuffle? iTunes? I think so. He changed the way we hear and think about music ...

John Taylor

#20. The thing that's really kept me on my toes is how my mom would always tell me - it's not the best thing for a mother to tell you - but she'd never tell me after I'd lose a soccer game, 'You'll do better next time.' She'd always say, 'There's always somebody better.'

Brandon Flowers

#21. Someone who refuses to see the truth will accept the lie. Someone who accepts the lie will never see the truth

Gena Showalter

#22. In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

Quentin Crisp

#23. How about this then." Chase shifted on the bed. Even without looking, Connie knew he was leaning over earnestly, his brilliant, lying black eyes full of sincerity. "I've missed you desperately. I'm overjoyed to find you again. Will you marry me?

Zoe Chant

#24. I've never seen myself as a 'girl driver.' I'm just a driver.

Danica Patrick

#25. If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesn't that show an incredible attention span?

Kevin Spacey

#26. I'll fight a man with three children and a nice house any day over a man that's living out of a car.

Art Briles

#27. Wanting to be liked is often a very unlikeable characteristic.

Stephen Fry