Application Quote by George Eliot

With any character, you want the audience to at least empathize.

— Tobias Segal

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

I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters…

— Rick Moody

I'm such a firm believer that everyone should see themselves in a character, and everyone should feel represented.

— Kiernan Shipka

But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a…

— Thomas Perry

It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world.

— Tim Crouch

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

With any character, I try to focus more on who the character is and how they got to be who they are.

— Rachelle Lefevre

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

What an audience decides about where certain characters come from is really up to them.

— Joel Edgerton

I really, deeply believe in the primacy of character. I believe that my job as a writer is to put a believable human being…

— Ayana Mathis

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

— Nicholas Sparks