“When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel. The author is aware that there's a certain amount of information she/he has to provide in order to satisfy the reader, knowing that she/he has set something up that must be paid off, but this payment must be made while maintaining fidelity to the characters.” WantWritingMadeBookCharacterCertainOrderEmotionNovelKnowingInformationReaderAmountPaidStructureGuidesMaintainingPaymentFidelityPaid Off Author:David Bezmozgis
“The poem in Where Good Swimmers Drown are love poems. But love poems that defy the divisions between emotion and intellect, private and public, life and art, writer and reader. To read Elbe's poems is to discover not only what it means to be in love, but what it means to be alive.” MeanArtEmotionAliveReaderIntellectDivisionPublic LifeLove PoemsSwimmer Author:Jesse Lee Kercheval
“Readers must be given room to bring their own emotions to a piece so crammed with emotional content; the writer must tenaciously resist explaining why the material is so moving.” MovingGivenRoomsEmotionPiecesEmotionalMaterialsReaderExplaining Author:William Zinsser
“There are four basic emotions - mad, sad, glad and scared. And if you touch those emotions then you can grab your audience, your reader.” IfsEmotionAudienceFourReaderMadScaredGlad Author:Larry Winget
“It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people and their emotions closer to my readers, not explain Turkish politics.” PeopleWantProblemCultureLiteratureEmotionReaderConcernUniversalIntentionTurkeysTurkish Author:Orhan Pamuk
“I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that relies heavily on suspense with a texture rich in emotion and imagery. I take a great deal of satisfaction in using popular forms-- the adventure, the mystery, the thriller-- so as to hold my reader with the sheer pleasure of a good story. At the same time I try to resolve my books with an ambiguity that compels engagement. In short, I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantFeelsWritingTryingBookSometimesStoriesFormYoungEnjoyPleasureDealsEmotionLaughingIssuesRichMysteryStyleAdventureReaderAdultsComplexesSatisfactionSuspenseNarrativeIronyRelyContradictionResolveEngagementSheerImageryAmbiguityTextureGood StoryThrillersGood Reads Author:Avi
“On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in my youth; and, on the other, not to let myself down by publishing inferior material. My poetry comes under the latter head. My only advice to the reader is to skip any verse that he sees coming.” IdeasHandsWantedEmotionAdviceYouthMaterialsReaderIncludingLatterRelevantPublishingVersesInferiorsSkipDocumentation Author:Edmund Wilson
“I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer - is the peculiar function of poetry.” ThinkingFeltEmotionReaderFunctionPeculiarVibrationsTransmitCorresponding Book:Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)