Books Quote by Michael Connelly

The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“If the reader doesn't connect with your character, they are not going to connect with the story. I try to make my characters very…

— Stacy Thowe

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

“How well your readers connect with and care about this character determines the success of a story. In other words, if they've emotionally gone…

— Susan May Warren

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

The main character in the book is usually someone you're identifying with because the story is being told through this person's mind.

— Jay Asher

If a character is honest with a reader, then (hopefully) that will engage the reader's empathy centers; she'll meet that openness with acceptance, and…

— Joshua Mohr

“Empathy is something you must create when the hero is introduced. Making your hero a victim in the middle of the movie or showing…

— Michael Hauge

You can be empathetic to a character in a book in a way that you can't with a real person, which is weird, because…

— Hank Green

There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in…

— Alexander Payne

You know it's a great story when you identify with the main character to the point that you forget you're a spectator or a…

— Gaspar Noe