Best Minor Characters Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“No, I realize Hektor was just another rando bit player on whatever bullshit 'hero's journey' you think you've been on. But when this is over, you'll finally realize that you're not even the star of your own story. You're a goddam black hole.”

Hero Role Metafiction Minor Characters Hero Of The Story

Book:Saga #49

Source: Saga #49

“She spun the car through a right turn that would have killed us all had we been minor characters.”

Driving Characters Postmodernism Cars Minor Characters Daniel Handler Metanarrative Self Reflexive Flannery Culp Major Characters The Basic Eight

Book:The Basic Eight

Source: The Basic Eight

“And if minor characters show an inclination to become major characters … you at least give them a shot at it, because … just as in the real world it may take you many years to find out that the stranger you talked to once for half an hour in the railroad station may have done more to point you to where your true homeland lies than your priest or your best friend or even your psychiatrist.”

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Book:Bird by Bird

Source: Bird by Bird

“There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters.”

Hard Whole Character Literature Century Expectations Minors 19th Century Orphan Shortage Parental Great Expectations Widows And Orphans Minor Characters

Author:David Nicholls

“Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life.”

People Knows Writing Sometimes Character My Own Mines Versions Minors My Own Life Minor Characters

Author:Cassandra Clare

“I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.”

Character Stories Novel Fans Effects Century Majors Driven Passages Minors 19th Century Passage Of Time Minor Characters

Author:John Irving

“I'd always assumed I was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me I might in fact be only a minor character in someone else's.”

Character Facts Stories Might My Own Minors Minor Characters

Book:The Turtle Diary

Source: The Turtle Diary

“I'm fortunate in that I'm what you call a utility player, in that I can take a scene, if there's five or six minor characters in a scene, that need voice and personality [and] I can supply those characters.”

Ifs Needs I Can Character Voice Five Player Personality Scene Six Fortunate Minors Utility Minor Characters

Author:Bob Bergen

“I talk about Breaking Bad being the most brilliant show ever, and even minor characters have subtle nuances and are fully drawn.”

Character Shows Brilliant Subtle Minors Nuance Minor Characters

Author:Zach Anner

“Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have invented thirteen thousand characters? Thirteen thousand! The population of a small town!)”

Ifs Knows Writing Character Class Gone Thousand Towns Population Minors Seventies Small Town Thirteen Dickens Did You Know Minor Characters

Book:The Polysyllabic Spree

Source: The Polysyllabic Spree

“Respect your characters, even the minor ones. In art, as in life, everyone is the hero of their own particular story; it is worth thinking about what your minor characters' stories are, even though they may intersect only slightly with your protagonist's.”

Thinking May Art Character Stories Particular Hero Minors Protagonists Minor Characters

Author:Sarah Waters

“Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables.”

Ifs Has Beens Character Stories Eye Turns Mets Conversation Pages Vegetables Resurrection Minors Disguise Minor Characters

Book:Miracles: A Preliminary Study

Source: Miracles: A Preliminary Study

“Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?”

Character Figures Tales Minors Minor Characters

Author:Jacqueline Carey

“Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see”

Men Character Purpose Stage Minors Abraham Minor Characters

Book:Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of punctuation, in the plot, in the most minor character who crosses the page. It's all your voice.”

Writing Persons Moments Character Stories Voice Pieces Pages Crosses Plot That Moment Minors Moments In Time Punctuation Minor Characters

Author:Victor LaValle

“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.”

Ifs World Wells Looks Whole Character Film Interesting Written Brother Size Details Whole World Minors Protagonists Well Written Coen Brothers Minor Characters

Author:Brendan Gleeson

“There is more story in a minor character like Boba Fett than there is in all the clutter of various vampires in the Twilight franchise.”

Character Stories Various Vampire Twilight Minors Clutter Minor Characters Boba Fett

Author:George Takei

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