The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
'Star Trek' was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters.
J. J. Abrams
I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they... →
There are so many characters whizzing around inside my head, it's like Looney Tunes. But as soon as I've finished writing about them, I... →
Peter Ackroyd
I would say that a lot of the characters I've been attracted to are very vulnerable and they expose themselves emotionally. Not so much in... →
Amy Adams
I'm much more comfortable speaking through my characters' voices than my own.
It's not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my characters to have hope - and that's what I do with... →
Cecelia Ahern
Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.
Jessica Alba
The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes... →
Robert Aldrich