Accepting Quote by Kimberly Elise

I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them.

— Mike White

I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a world that…

— John Crowley

I fall in love with characters when they're out of their element or are uncomfortable and you really feel for them in a knee-jerk…

— Anna Kendrick

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

My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me.

— Donal Logue

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

— James Wan

My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me, if that makes any sense.

— Donal Logue

Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.

— Mia Wasikowska

With every character, the first thing I want to feel is empathy.

— Jonathan Groff

I never like to judge the character. I just have to leave my feelings of pity, or fear, about a character - whatever I…

— Richard Coyle

Some people see me as dissecting my characters in some kind of heartless, coldblooded, analytical way, when in truth making these movies is a…

— Todd Solondz

My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel…

— Don DeLillo