Books Quote by Michael Chabon Download Open image “I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.” — Michael Chabon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Character Feelings Giving Knowing Psychology Reader Wanted
My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them. — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
It was our goal to dig into the characters and really try to find out why they think the things they think and why… — Marshall Curry Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For me, it's important that I experience and feel what the characters are feeling. So I put myself in those moments, in their thoughts,… — Chevy Stevens Copy Share Image
The last thing I want is that sense of artifice - rather I want the reader drawn into the story and lost in it… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
I discovered you can get closer to a character's thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film. — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
When I read scripts and when I read books, it's more of an emotional response and I was really drawn to these characters. — Katie Holmes Copy Share Image
One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible. — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Anyway, it's a pretty good story," I said. "You have to admit." "Yeah?" He crumpled up the Kleenex, having dispatched the solitary tear. "You can have it. I'm giving it to you. After I'm gone, write it down. Explain everything. Make it mean something. Use a lot of those fancy metaphors of yours. Put the whole thing in proper chronological… — Michael Chabon Copy Share
There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Badass.'" My grandfather sampled the flavor of the word. It did not seem to revolt him, but it was nothing he needed ever to… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
See you in the funny papers," he said. Jaunty, he reminded himself; always jaunty. In my panache is their hope for salvation. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I didn't want to be left alone with Timothy, not because I was afraid of him but because I was afraid that somebody would… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“He had already seized this particular day once, but he was prepared, if need be, to go ahead and seize the motherfucker all over… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“We figure he must have let him out. The perpetrator, I mean. He's blind and we figure he just wandered off and maybe got… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Then I reminded myself that I was always willing to listen to arguments in favor of avoiding an unpleasant chore, and I shook my… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Love great first lines and paragraphs. From The Yiddish Policemen's Union: Nine months Landsman's been flopping at the Hotel Zamenhof without any of his… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Life blew in gusts from the hole in the side of the elephant with a rank smell and a comic flatulence.” — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Not only would I never want to belong to any club that would have me for a member--if elected I would wear street shoes… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
