Both Malcolm and Kazin compare Salinger to F. Scott Fitzgerald, but Kazin makes the more telling point: "When Fitzgerald describes a character's voice, it is because he really loves -- in the creative sense, is fully interested in -- this character.
"Bridget was such a calling card for women and I was just really interested in that character and why we all identified so insanely strongly with her".
"What I discovered," she told me when we spoke on the phone, "was that readers were more interested or as interested in the character in the novel as they were in the novelist.
I'm interested in the characters and their emotional lives rather than the specific plot.
Actually, Mr. Gaultier seemed more interested in the characters who populated that world, some of them Russian émigrés.
And the whole complex process will eventuate in our ability to be more interested in the characters, as well as in those real people we meet outside the book's covers.
We're not very interested in these characters.
Finally, she was glad it was not too "gory" and summarized, "On Body of Proof I'm more interested in the characters than the graphic medical details.
This will make people more interested in your character and want to follow your story.
