Sondheim informs us, more than any other composer, about…

The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is…

— David Levithan

I'm always surprised when people talk about strong female characters because I feel like we all are.

— Lotte Verbeek

“Metaphors introduce symbolic elements that add layers of meaning and depth to how characters feel in any given situation.”

— Calvin Niles

As in the case of many of the stories that I've written I'm not trying to editorialize. I don't want there to be a…

— Benjamin Percy

With any period piece I think the thing to do is forget that it's not contemporary when you're writing and to have the characters…

— Steven Knight

I choose material instinctually - at the heart of it are characters that I feel are fresh and original, and allow for an opportunity…

— Kathryn Bigelow

It's easier to write about heartbreak after you've had your heart broken. You have more material to draw from, you can extrapolate from your…

— Patrick Rothfuss

As a woman, I don't feel like I have a responsibility to create better female characters. I feel like I have a responsibility to…

— Courtney A. Kemp

As actors, we have to take characters, and we have to feel for them and ultimately become them, and share that on screen so…

— Ross Butler

“Some writers need to sink in order to feel what their characters feel; in order to write their characters with the truest feeling possible.…

— Lori Lifsey

You can start imagining all kinds of things characters would feel, but you have to have a sense of whether those imaginings might be…

— Jennifer Egan

I'm grateful that so many viewers have related to characters I've played. I think many in the audience see themselves in my characters or…

— Hwang Jung-eum

My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel…

— Don DeLillo

The movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don't have characters that I feel as personally connected to.

— Jesse Eisenberg