Jill McCorkle Quotes

You have to be involved and relate to the characters in order to make a film that is true emotionally.

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.

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.

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.

A lot of entertainment, and especially in a half-hour format, can be all jokes, all the time. And some of those jokes can be really, really funny, but what I respond to, as a viewers, is identification or caring about the characters.

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.

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

I'm focused on finding characters I connect to.

What I need, as a reader, is a character with a heart and a voice and a pulse. I need a character so vivid and so specific that she doesn't feel like fiction.

The first job of a storyteller is to make the reader feel the story, to get the reader to live in the skin of the character.

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.

I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.

It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to.

'Star Trek' was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters.

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

When I approach any script, I always try to find what I would relate to most in it.

When we read a book, we have a blurry image that's kind of physical but blurry. But we have an emotional image also. We have an emotional connection to the character.

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

I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.

If the characters are compelling, readers will follow anywhere.

In 'The Prophet' I really fell in love with those characters, there was an emotional connection there that I don't think I've had in a while. It made me think it would be nice to stick with the characters for a little bit and see what happens.

What is overriding that and most important is that readers generally are interested in a good character. They might be more comfortable with Harry because they think they know him, but they always seem willing to give somebody new a chance.