Acting Quote by Gene Wolfe

I focus on characters as individuals with attitudes and write each scene from a particular character's point of view. That way, even narrative passages…

— Elmore Leonard

Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too.

— George V. Higgins

You can't dictate if a character's going to come off as sympathetic to an audience. I just tried to play it as honest as…

— Donnie Wahlberg

“Things that only a writer would understand—you’re writing a character—you tell that character who she or he is and they stop you and make…

— Lisa Marbly-Warir

I always want the audience to identify with my character in some way. I mean, sometimes you'll get characters that aren't very identifiable. Sometimes…

— Liana Liberato

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 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

You never display your character more clearly than when you speak about the character of others.

— John C. Maxwell

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

What is the character trying to say? Why? Be as specific as you can, using sense images that evoke something about the character. Try…

— Pat Pattison

“Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of “character,” and readers pretend to talk knowingly about “character,”…

— Sōseki Natsume

I always want the audience to identify with my character in some way. I mean, sometimes you'll get characters that aren't very identifiable. Sometimes…

— Liana Liberato