" How well your readers connect with and care about this character determines the success of a story. In other words, if they've emotionally gone on the journey with the character, suffered with and experienced the joys and triumphs of the character, as well as learned the lessons and truths, only then have you, the author, done your job. "

― Susan May Warren , The Story Equation: How to Plot and Write a Brilliant Story from One Powerful Question (Brilliant Writer Series)