Books Quote by Khaled Hosseini

If you have great characters, then your reader becomes emotionally invested in those people.

— Lawrence Wright

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

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

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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

I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and…

— Kimberly Elise

I really do believe that people surprise you. And one of the powerful things about novels is that they're about characters, and those characters…

— Mohsin Hamid

When I start writing these novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the…

— Ruth Ozeki

The best books come from someplace deep inside… Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.

— Judy Blume

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

— Alain de Botton

If you care about the characters, then whatever scary thing happens to them, you feel it even more.

— James Wan

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

The characters I'm most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You don't see them regularly anymore, but…

— Mary Doria Russell