Book Quote by David Bezmozgis

When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel. The…

— David Bezmozgis

“Sometimes, when I read, it's not just fiction while I'm between the pages. It’s real. My heart races when they kiss, and I get…

— Emma Hart

You put books out into the world, and people form their own visuals and images and attachments to characters; those characters become part of…

— Cassandra Clare

Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can access the…

— Aimee Bender

Most writers write from their own experiences. That is where the honesty and intensity of emotions come from.

— Ravi Subramanian

Writing a book is an emotional odyssey, sometimes exhilarating, other times deflating.

— Ryan O'Neal

Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.

— Sue Monk Kidd

I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the…

— Salman Rushdie

I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'…

— Irvine Welsh

Writers shouldn't fall in love with their characters so much that they lose sight of what they're trying to accomplish. The idea is to…

— Stephen Coonts

Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my own. I always begin with…

— S. E. Hinton

You can be empathetic to a character in a book in a way that you can't with a real person, which is weird, because…

— Hank Green