“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.” Taken from “Old Newsman Writes,” Esquire, December 1934.
The Author's Cove: John "Jack" Cunningham on Writing & History 
It’s a challenging goal to write books that make readers feel that what happens to our characters happens to them as well.
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It really is.
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