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  • 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.

    TheFandom.net Interview, www.thefandom.net.
  • 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.

    C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books
  • 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.

    "David Nicholls: Adapting Great Expectations for the screen". www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2012.
  • 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.

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

    Character   Men   Purpose  
    Seth Grahame-Smith (2010). “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”, p.138, Hachette UK
  • I talk about Breaking Bad being the most brilliant show ever, and even minor characters have subtle nuances and are fully drawn.

    Source: abilitymagazine.com
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Art   Hero   Character  
    "Sarah Waters's rules for writers" by Sarah Waters, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2010.
  • 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.

    Russell Hoban (2000). “The Turtle Diary”, p.174, A&C Black
  • 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.

  • 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!)

    Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books
  • 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.

    "Brendan Gleeson: the character actor who steals the show". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2010.
  • 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.

    Source: www.thestarscoop.com
  • Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?

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