Quotes About Author

I get emotional when young people get nostalgic about my work. That's why it's called nostalgia. Sometimes I even cry.

I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies.

I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.

My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever.

In writing I search for believability, simplicity, and emotional impact.

My "mission", if you can call it that, is to connect with my readers on an emotional level and have them come away with a stronger impression of the basic message in the story I am illustrating.

We are long-term players in the industry. We're not just crazy and emotional. We try to be logical business managers.

When I read scripts and when I read books, it's more of an emotional response and I was really drawn to these characters.

My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.

Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all day with a haggard look.

I think probably I'm quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I'm very embarrassed by sentiment. I'm very embarrassed by corniness.

You rarely get a tentpole that has this much emotional depth, this much character to dive into.

I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world. But the instability of the poetry, the emotional jaggedness, is also me.

The subject for a lot of non-fiction is very emotional, but if you read it, it's the most boring, dry stuff. I wanted 'Torn Apart' to be extremely accessible and readable.

I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I'm really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff.

...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.

I'm not sympathetic. I have zero sympathy. I understand about emotional eating, I understand how painful the process can be, but I also understand that change is possible.

What is the environmental platform of the Republican party? I don't know either.

Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.

The American agenda is sweeping everything before it, and although it's not perfect, the EU is better on environmental issues. It's a less rapacious form of capitalism.

The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy.

Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven.

Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will.