Becomes Quote by Lawrence Wright

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

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

— Alexander McCall Smith

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

When you have a set of characters, you have to fall in love with them and care about them as each individual character.

— Tina Fey

I am always physically and emotionally invested in the characters I play.

— Shweta Tripathi

Remember, if you don't feel passionate about the characters and subject of your story, your readers won't either.

— Meg Cabot

People who act against their own best interests are interesting characters.

— Paul Schrader

I think sometimes people become quite emotional about the characters as well, and that's pretty cool that you can get that emotion out of…

— Chris Lilley

I don't try to intellectualize characters too much. But I always think of the audience. I always make sure that my characters are likeable.

— Paula Patton

I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.

— George R. R. Martin

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

— Jeffrey Eugenides