Book Quote by Richard Russo

I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them.

— Mike White

I care very much about all of my characters, recurring or not. I try to imagine something about that person beyond his or her…

— Jason Lutes

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

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to. And often seem to write about situations that are…

— Kenneth Lonergan

You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.

— Paul Haggis

Why do you keep reading a book? Usually to find out what happens. Why do you give up and stop reading it? There may…

— Gail Carson Levine

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

I don't have sentimental attachments to characters at all.

— Martin Freeman

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

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

— Jodi Picoult

I usually focus on the whole group of characters in any given work-in-progress, and as a result they become particularly dear to me as…

— Vera Nazarian