Books Quote by Len Wein

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

— Lawrence Wright

What the writers do, and we hopefully can bring to life, is that they present characters who, on the surface, aren't always heroic and…

— Charlie Cox

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

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

The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a…

— Dick Wolf

We become attached to certain characters in novels, mostly because they have some mystery attaching to them. We re-read the books, but we're still…

— Ronald Frame

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

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

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a series. So I…

— Jeff Abbott

Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I realized that the people weren't just characters but they were people and they were getting to do something that was so fun and…

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who have read…

— Nikki Reed