I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like…

My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.

— Mike White

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

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

if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.

— Paul Haggis

You don't want to cry over yourself, you don't want to have compassion about yourself. It's not the right place.

— Isabelle Huppert

I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a world that…

— John Crowley

Its a basic truth that if you want to have compassion for others, you need to first have compassion for yourself. Its like when…

— Kemmy Nola Http://wwwamoreloveforlifecom

Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our…

— Henry Fielding

Young people, when they're left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who…

— Russell Simmons

My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know…

— Paul Auster

As artists, we are so not in control most of the time of the content or the narrative of our characters, and sometimes writing…

— Mike Colter

“It's basically an act of faith, hoping that a small idea will unspool into a bigger whole. Sometimes, in fact often, it doesn't and…

— Khaled Hosseini

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

— Louis Sachar

The reader has information about the characters that the characters themselves don't have. We all have our secret sides. Even I come to understand…

— Jaume Cabre