Books Quote by Cornelia Funke

If the reader doesn't care or relate to the characters, all that visual spectacle is pretty but feels empty.

— Cliff Chiang

I suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such a meticulous,…

— John Banville

You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there's a real entry into the story - that some…

— Jill McCorkle

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

I do extensive research before I begin writing, but only a fraction of the research goes into the novels. The writer does not need…

— Edward Rutherfurd

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

Remember, if you don't feel passionate about the characters and subject of your story, your readers won't either.

— Meg Cabot

Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“Good writers may “tell” about almost anything in fiction except the characters’ feelings.”

— John Gardner

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

— Michael Chabon

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of…

— Sara Zarr