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.
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I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
I believe that if the story is fleshed out and the characters more believable, the reader is more likely to take the journey with them. In addition, the plot can be more complex. My characters are very real to me, and I want each of my characters to be different.
It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest.
I was fascinated that everybody in the story thinks that they're in the right.
I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.
It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw.
Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.
I discovered you can get closer to a character's thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.
A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.