Annoyed Quote by Eden Robinson

It was our goal to dig into the characters and really try to find out why they think the things they think and why…

— Marshall Curry

“And what about those [writers' workshop] critiques, by the way? How valuable are they? Not very, in my experience, sorry. A lot of them…

— Stephen King

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

— Carl Barks

If you connect emotionally with the plight of those characters, ou feel what they feel and you walk away with a sense of understanding…

— Khaled Hosseini

I liked the idea that if something horrible was happening to one of the characters in the mental hospital, no one would believe them.…

— Michael Rasmussen

I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life.

— Steve Martin

Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

I think if you're too embroiled in the need to relate too closely to the character, then you start to judge the character for…

— Cate Blanchett

If you can relate to what the character's going through, the story can be as ridiculous as possible, and people will relate to it.…

— Drew Goddard

It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in the story…

— Michelle Richmond

I guess Im attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And its why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for…

— Conor McPherson