you and your characters

Hello Mrs. Naylor! I was wondering, from one writer to another, Do you think you become your characters a little bit while you’re writing about them and feel for them when you put them in certain situations or feel bad for them? When I write a story I tend to do that or when I read something, my friends tell me i’m weird so I just wanted to know if some of the world’s greatest authors are like that too 🙂

Yes, indeed.  It’s sort of like a play.  The writer has to be every actor onstage, and changes his hat each time that character appears.