Becky Albertalli Quotes

I think, ultimately, if you create characters that people like and can relate to, your characters are grounded on a human level even if your cars are not.

Whether it was 'Gangs Of Wasseypur' or whether it's 'LSTCK,' the characters are real, and when you see them on screen, you can identify with them.

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there's a real entry into the story - that some quality speaks to the individual.

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

To make a book convincing, it's less important that the right tree be in the right place than that the characters are emotionally real.

I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

Your structure and format may not be perfect, and you may not have picked the perfect franchise, but if I pick up a script, and the characters are real, whole, complicated and come from a place of somebody who really is feeling it, that's what people remember.

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

To connect with the characters, you need to connect with the world. If the world feels vaguely familiar, I believe the characters will feel relatable.

You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters... and that's why the characters need to be real.

In terms of the parallels, I've never related less to a character than Riggan.

You can't make the audience fall in love with a character you don't like.

The real trick to these movies and making the big action sequences work - and I've forgotten this sometimes and screwed it up - the characters really have to be humanized. Because you can have the greatest special effects in the world, but if you don't care about the people in those effects, there's no impact.

I think, when I write, one of the things that I'm really attempting to do is I'm attempting to humanize my characters.

Certain characters get to me and stay with me for a while.

I'm focused on finding characters I connect to.

I like to write characters that feel like people that I would know.

I don't exactly relate to grey characters.

Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.

The stories I love the most are where the author has a lot of empathy for everyone. The author loves their characters and takes their situations really seriously, and you feel like you're just dropped into a different world.

If we get caught up in a story, it's because we've started to care about the characters, and that can only happen if we've moved beneath the surface.

One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you care about the people. The dime a dozen ones are where you don't have any awareness of the character.