Quotes About Emotion

I'm always picturing her, whenever I make a catch, her reaction. And sometimes, when I drop a ball, I'm like, 'Darn it. I let my mama down.'

That's the extraordinary thing about opera: it has the power to elicit a physical reaction. I don't know if I'd have been any good or not, but I do know that I was never committed enough to find out.

I quite like Jackson Pollock, and have a real gut reaction to it, so it does whatever it does to me.

Ocarina of Time.' If that phrase elicits any sort of emotional reaction inside of you, then we really have something in common. When that game came out, I was just reaching the age when N64 was in its prime.

Hate is a learned reaction, and it can be unlearned.

Everything is real. It is one of our golden rules for the show. We won't do it otherwise because the show is built around real reaction, ours included.

Music can inspire immediate emotional reactions, even if the only person who hears it is the person creating it.

I don't feel like emotion has place in a debate, because emotion doesn't encourage rational debate - it shuts it down. It supplants rational debate with quick, emotional reactions.

Music doesn't have to have lyrics; it doesn't have to be a particular type of music - it has the ability to bring out really strong and hopefully good emotional reactions in people.

Going as far back as 'Dexter's Lab,' we've always had these sequences with no dialogue. The interesting thing is those sequences got the biggest reactions.

The way I put together images is a reactive art.

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing - not the 'what happens' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.

In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic.

To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

Well, for people who want to write best sellers, the best advice I can give is to say that the novel has to engage the reader emotionally.

There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up in the reader. That's what writers do when they're good.

Choosing the narrator for a first-person story like 'Downriver' is a crucial decision because the voice has to be one the reader wants to listen to, and the voice has to be a match for the emotion you want the story to carry.

I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers.

The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.

The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.

For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.

History is my passion. So I write what I love to read. I find that if I combine history with a strong, sensual romance, it is like a one-two punch. The reader doesn't want the history without the romance, and of course the heavier the history, the more it has to be leavened with a sensual, all-consuming love story.