Quotes About Emotion

Write about what you care about. If you do that, you're probably going to do your best writing, reach off the page and touch the reader. How are you going to make the reader care if you don't care yourself?

I want to earn a reader's capacity to be moved.

Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.

If your depiction of loss doesn't make the reader feel loss, then you didn't depict it right.

The fundamentals for me are character and conflict. I put character first because readers will be indifferent to conflict if they are indifferent to the character who is experiencing it.

Romance writers and readers have one thing in common: We love men.

I think I work much the same way I always have. I'm trying to interpret something emotionally visually. I'm reading the brief or article, or listening to the music, and deciding where that sends me, and what would it look like.

I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.

There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.

I don't have a desire to make films that have cardboard cut-out or Hollywood stand-in replicas of humans. I need the real deal.

Nobody smolders in real life.

In my films, a lot of the situations come from real life.

Horror films are very effective to me; they have an impact on me. I think that real life things scare me a lot more.

You write in songs what you're too scared to write in real life, and then you sing the songs to loads of people instead of telling it to the person you should be telling it to... Songs are a great way of dealing with those issues but kind of a coward's way as well.

If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I've always found it so fascinating.

My indie work is mostly reality-based, focused on real life and characters.

Basically, any time you have a real life experience, that can be a song. Because no matter how crazy or weird you are, somebody's had an experience just like you, somewhere.

In real life, I'm very rational, and I'm not very dramatic.

In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from a very real place.

The best stories come from real life.

Hugh Grant has that magic in real life, so when he's saying these lines, 'It's always been you,' it's just devastating.

When you listen to music, you can tell if it's a real love song or not.

I want real love.

I just have this real love and connection with what I'm doing when I play music.