Character Quote by Tom Perrotta

I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.

— Anson Mount

To me sympathy for a character has little to do with how morally upstanding or wicked they are. All that really matters for me…

— James Lasdun

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 think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not…

— A. C. Benson

Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals.

— Gretel Ehrlich

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

— Paul Haggis

The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy.

— Charles Bock

Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sympathy feels like a performative word, whereas empathy is human.

— Rose Troche

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

— Lillie Langtry

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

— Mike White

I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm…

— Alan Rickman