Connections Quote by Leni Zumas

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 people who really have character make deep, unshakable connections to something outside themselves.

— David Brooks

There are definitely parts of me in most of the protagonists I write, but I find a bit of distance can be useful, so…

— John K. Samson

I do tend to have characters that I guess are in some way loners or dealing with obstacles that they have to confront that…

— Craig Gillespie

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

— Lawrence Wright

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

— Anne Rice

Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own…

— Cassandra Clare

I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.

— Alexia Fast

Writing can be a lonely business. But gradually your characters, or the scenes and peopl from your past, begin to rise up around you,…

— Barbara Abercrombie

When you're a writer, if you're very lucky, you create these characters that you fall in love with, and you feel like they're guiding…

— Janet Varney

Writers tend to feel like outsiders.

— Jesse Armstrong

I try not to push characters too close to myself because they get harder to write, but as a writer, you try to find…

— Tom King