“Music is, by far, the best art. Nothing even comes close. It's so immediate and emotional. In writing, maybe ninety percent of it is the unconscious and ten percent is control. In music, I think it's probably more like ninety-nine percent the unconscious. It's just a beautiful thing happening through you. And so, too, is writing a great story.” ThinkingWritingArtStoriesBeautifulEmotionalTenMusic IsHappeningsPercentThings HappenNineUnconsciousBeautiful ThingsNinetyNinety NineBest Art Author:T.C. Boyle
“I can be really silly when I'm not actually writing silliness, and I have to rein that in. Pynchon, in my opinion, sometimes tells elaborate shaggy dog stories just to work up to a pun or punch line. My challenge is to use humor and wordplay to reinforce the emotional core of the novel.” WritingI CanSometimesStoriesUseChallengesLinesOpinionNovelDogEmotionalCoreSillyReinsPunWordplaySilliness Author:Mary Kay Zuravleff
“I love museums, but I always thought there was something funny about a group of strangers silently staring at works of inanimate objects together. Each person is having a very personal and maybe even emotional experience, but it's in the confines of an extremely quiet and sterile room.” PersonsTogetherRoomsGroupsObjectsEmotionalQuietStrangerStaringMuseumsInanimate Objects Author:Hiro Murai
“I'd listen to things that felt really good in the moment and realize they were clouded by enthusiasm or caffeine. And things that I was struggling to get out ended up being really compelling. It's an emotional roller coaster; there's exhilaration and there's shame.” MomentsFeltRealizingStruggleEmotionalShameEnthusiasmBeing RealCompellingCaffeineRoller CoasterCoastersCloudedExhilaration Author:Annie E. Clark
“Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.” HardUseHappensDifficultTermEmotionalEgoWeaknessThings HappenArtisticConfrontingScientologyLetting Things Happen Author:Annie E. Clark
“Personally I have my own political views and being straight-edge I'm happy to talk about that, but the music that always meant the most to me, was more emotional.” PoliticalMy OwnViewsEmotionalEdgesPolitical ViewStraight Edge Author:Davey Havok
“A good mixtape didn't just gather together a bunch of love songs, but instead created an emotional narrative specific to your affection. The stories in most of my favorite collections are collected more like songs on a mixtape than, say, collected like spare change. By which I mean they are in conversation with each other and work to become larger than their parts.” MeanStoriesTogetherSongEmotionalConversationMy FavoriteAffectionBunchNarrativeCollectionsSparesMixtapesSpare Change Author:Anthony Marra
“We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up elicits an emotional response that the story itself very well may not earn. Energy generated by the fiction itself is likely to produce more light.” KnowsFeelsWellsMayChildrenStoriesLightEnergyFictionProduceEmotionalDrugAbuseResponseAddictionIllnessChild AbuseDrug AddictionDrug AddictTerminalEmotional ResponseTerminal Illness Author:Anthony Marra
“The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've had.” FactsFictionEventsEmotionalMinesUnimportant Author:John Dufresne
“I usually think of art as having a measurable content of nourishment, whether factual or emotional or whatever, and I try to make sure that whatever I do has as much nourishment as I can muster.” ThinkingTryingArtI CanEmotionalNourishmentFactualMuster Author:Jeffrey Lewis
“If the show encourages an audience to ask the question, "Is this character's emotional response to this situation valid?," then that's a really good question to ask.” IfsCharacterShowsAsksSituationAudienceEmotionalResponseGood QuestionsEmotional Response Author:Charlie Cox
“In a way it's the emotional feeling that you get in a good rock song or folk song, there's just nothing that rivals that.” WayFeelingsSongRocksEmotionalFolksRivalsFolk SongsRock Song Author:Bryce Dessner
“There are some superficial things that connect me to the stream. There's instrumentation, there's timbre, use of electronics, the way that samples are used, the way the electric guitar is used. I'm thinking of things that are particular to this era. But I don't always feel particularly close to the music of my peers. I often feel that I have more in common with writers and visual artists. I try to connect to people in an emotional kind of way.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsTryingKindUseUsedArtistCommonEmotionalParticularGuitarErasStreamsVisualsElectricPeersSuperficialSampleVisual ArtElectronicsElectric GuitarVisual ArtistInstrumentationTimbreSuperficial Things Author:Missy Mazzoli
“For me, writing music is a way of processing the world. It's not a concrete thing, as in, "This piece is about giraffes." It's much more of an emotional sort of thing. I want people to find something out about themselves through my music, something that was inaccessible before, something that they were suppressing, something that they couldn't really confront.” PeopleWorldWayWantWritingPiecesEmotionalMusic IsConcreteProcessingWriting MusicInaccessibleSuppressingGiraffe Author:Missy Mazzoli
“There's a certain pressure you put on yourself to use the comics page to full advantage that can focus your mind to a pinpoint, and when the juices are flowing, that's incredibly exciting. When you've managed to fit a complex set of actions or a complicated emotional passage into a single page there's the sense of satisfaction that I suspect a sculptor gets from chipping away at a piece of stone and ending up with a fully-realized work of art.” MindArtUseActionCertainFocusPiecesEmotionalFitPagesAdvantageStonesExcitingPressureComplexesSatisfactionComplicatedSuspectsWorks Of ArtPassagesJuiceSculptorsChipping Away Author:James Vance
“I lived in New York, and I was the guy who was flying home almost every week, so there was a physical exhaustion and an emotional exhaustion for me, and a need to be home more.” NeedsHomeGuyWeekNew YorkEmotionalFlyingExhaustion Author:Peter Jacobson
“I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end.” PeopleWritingFirstsEndsStoriesNovelEmotionalResearchHistoricalCoreHistorical Novels Author:Jami Attenberg
“I am curious to see what books will emerge from all this writing online that's the result of those who grew up pouring their feelings out on Livejournal or Tumblr - excessive, sometimes automatic, sometimes enraged, emotional, while also quite intellectual - or if formal books will emerge at all, if that's not the point of these unmediated raw spaces. I'm excited by the possibility.” IfsWritingBookSometimesFeelingsSpaceResultsPossibilityEmotionalGrewGrew UpIntellectualExcitedCuriousOnlineFormalPouring Author:Kate Zambreno
“Trying to tell an authentic, raw and honest story without making it therapy. Separating myself enough to have perspective while putting myself in the emotional hot seat so that I could make this thing real. Asking for help. Delegating responsibility. Standing up for myself. Fighting the impulse to be sweet and likeable 24/7. Being open to all ideas, but staying true to the spine of the story. Knowing when to let go and when to hold on and fight like hell. Getting out of my own way. Shall I go on?” WayTryingIdeasRealEnoughHelpingStoriesFightingMy OwnResponsibilityHellKnowingHonestEmotionalSweetPerspectiveGoes OnLetting GoStandingHotAskingImpulseTherapySeatsStayingSpineStay TrueSeparatingLikeableAsking For Help Author:Jessie Kahnweiler
“Simply put, you can read a story in a single sitting and hold it all in your mind. You can experience all of its rhythms, beginning to end, during that span. Consequently it has, I think, greater emotional power than a novel because of this real-time effect. Stories can stun you.” ThinkingMindRealEndsStoriesNovelGreaterEffectsEmotionalSittingRhythmEmotional Power Author:Adam Ross
“I'll never forget reading Chekhov's "A Doctor's Visit" on a train to Hawthorne, New York, and I got to the end - the scene where the patient says goodbye to the doctor and she puts a flower in her hair as a kind of thank you to him - and I felt like a cowboy shot from a canyon's top. This is a different experience from reading a novel, I think. The emotional effect is cumulative. Let's just hope market forces don't send short fiction the way of the dinosaur, because their sales are paltry compared to the novel and this is truly unfortunate.” ThinkingWayKindDifferentEndsReadingForceFeltForgetFictionNovelEffectsNew YorkEmotionalFlowerHairSceneShotsDoctorsTrainPatientGoodbyeNever ForgetUnfortunateCowboySaying GoodbyeDinosaursCanyonsCumulativeDifferent ExperiencesChekhovHawthorne Author:Adam Ross
“Every time I work with Dr. Luke I learn something new. He's kind of like the Andy Warhol of pop music, where he mass produces his art but it always still has heart and always still has an emotional thread to it. I think he's really a genius and I'm so lucky to have gotten to work with him.” ThinkingHeartKindArtStillsProduceEmotionalGeniusLuckyMassPopsSomething NewThreadDrsPop MusicLukeSo LuckyWarhol Author:Bonnie McKee
“If you're trying to convey a crucial emotional truth, you have to be in total control of the emotional pacing of the story, and if you can only strike one note in terms of tone then you're going to be quite limited as a writer.” IfsTryingStoriesTermEmotionalNotesStrikesToneCrucialPacing Author:Kevin Keck
“In fact, I always assumed that most everything I read was true, to one degree or another. I couldn't articulate this fact until after I read Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and he discussed Happening Truth, Story Truth, and Emotional Truth. I always understood that the facts of The Sun Also Rises or On the Road were the facts as dictated by a certain narrative structure, but because the experiences of those characters echoed my own feelings about the world. I knew there was a Happening Truth behind them.” WorldCharacterFactsStoriesFeelingsCertainMy OwnBehindsSunEmotionalTruth IsDegreesHappeningsUnderstoodStructureNarrativeSun Also RisesNarrative StructureTim O Brien Author:Kevin Keck
“Maybe that's partly why I'm an actor, I'm a fairly empathetic, emotional person, so I get very, very involved when it's really, really great when I'm watching - so it takes me a second to click back into reality again.” PersonsRealityActorsEmotionalInvolvedTake MeReally GreatClicksEmpatheticEmotional Person Author:Gabriel Mann
“I had a visceral connection to the period [of Korean War]. By visceral I suppose I mean emotional. But every fiction requires so much that is not that so I did a lot of other research and a lot of thinking, a lot of struggling there.” ThinkingMeanWarFictionStruggleEmotionalPeriodsResearchConnectionsKoreanVisceralKorean War Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“I love working with Angel Deradoorian, she's a joy to work with. She's fab at singing and she has a real... she has an understanding that's both intellectual and emotional about singing, that I think that very few people have.” PeopleThinkingRealJoyUnderstandingEmotionalIntellectualSingingAngel Author:Rostam Batmanglij
“['Dad's Army' show]was a military thing but also very funny, so it's kind of the two things that I experienced by being a soldier, and I found it very humorous then and there, because of the juxtapositions [and] me and my emotional state.” KindTwoStatesShowsFoundMilitaryEmotionalDadHumorousArmySoldierTwo ThingsJuxtaposition Author:Rhys Darby
“The purpose of bread and circuses is, as Neil Postman said in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, to distract, to divert emotional energy towards the absurd and the trivial and the spectacle while you are ruthlessly stripped of power.” SaidBookPurposeEnergyEmotionalBreadAbsurdCircusAmusingPostmanEmotional EnergyBread And Circuses Author:Chris Hedges
“After three days of shooting with Donald [ Sutherland], I was the only one he worked with for the first three days of the movie [The Winter Of Our Discontent] because of the crazy schedule. We [shot] a lot of this stuff, some of it incredibly intense and emotional. We had never had a conversation during that whole time. We didn't have time.” FirstsWholeThreeStuffCrazyEmotionalConversationShotsWinterIntenseShootingSchedulesDiscontent Author:Richard Masur
“A great song awakens something in your body / mind / spirit or history that you had forgotten about. It ignites some emotional kindling that you didn't even know you had stored. It awakens you to a possibility for the future - be it hope or excitement - that you never knew was possible.” KnowsMindBodySpiritSongPossibilityEmotionalForgottenYour BodyExcitementMind Body SpiritIgniteKindling Author:Greta Salpeter
“It's not often that you get a chance in one role to do the glamour bit and then strip off all the makeup and reveal the real person beneath the façade. Usually, it's either a glamorous role or a raw, emotional role.” PersonsRealBitsChanceRolesEmotionalMakeupGlamourGlamorousReal Person Author:Gugu Mbatha-Raw
“As an actress, I'm an emotional person.” PersonsEmotionalActressesEmotional Person Author:Gugu Mbatha-Raw
“I think the most important thing is being in healthy relationships. That might be a weird answer, but I think emotional health is a big contributor to physical health. I think [having] good romantic relationships, but even friendships and family, around you and having strong, supportive people around you helps you have an overall healthy lifestyle.” PeopleThinkingImportantHelpingBigsMightStrongAnswersEmotionalHealthyImportant ThingsLifestyleSupportiveHealthy LifestyleEmotional HealthPhysical HealthContributorsHealthy RelationshipRomantic RelationshipFriendship And Family Author:April Rose
“I try to go through it [emotional pain]; understanding is going to take me to a better place. And I do hot yoga.” TryingPainUnderstandingEmotionalYogaHotTake MeBetter PlaceEmotional PainHot Yoga Author:Patricia Velasquez
“I am a very emotional human being and would say that I handle emotional pain in a healthy way by always letting it out and not keeping it in. There is no better feeling than allowing those tears to flow when I am feeling emotionally constricted. Crying feels so good sometimes, and I do it when I'm happy, sad, stressed, scared. I like to believe that tears are my friend.” WayFeelsBelieveHumansSometimesFeelingsPainHuman BeingsCryTearsEmotionalHealthyMy FriendsFlowScaredHandleAllowingStressedEmotional Pain Author:Renee Marino
“Dramatically at first - that's how I handle emotional pain. If there were an award given for these moments, then I would have a mantle full of gold statuettes. Then I take stock and seek counsel from people I trust and talk myself into a state of reflection and remember that it won't last forever.” PeopleIfsFirstsStatesMomentsPainLastsRememberGivenForeverEmotionalReflectionGoldHandleAwardsEmotional Pain Author:Danielle Cormack
“I write songs to handle emotional pain. I guess what they say is true: with every heartache comes a great song. I also pray and have great friends.” WritingPainSongEmotionalPrayingHandleHeartacheEmotional PainGreat Friend Author:Matt Sorum
“There was a period of time between 2005 and 2008 that was pretty challenging. I had taken a leap of faith and moved to Los Angeles from New York, which had been incredible to me professionally. I couldn't get arrested in this town. There was a lot of doubt and fear that crept in, and boy, did insecurity stick her foot up in it. There were many obstacles that were overcome during that very dark period - creative, financial, emotional, and spiritual - and I'm here, standing, stronger than ever.” SpiritualChallengesDarkBoysCreativeTakenDoubtFeetNew YorkEmotionalPeriodsStandingOvercomingStrongerTownsMovedSticksIncrediblesFinancialObstaclesInsecurityLos AngelesLeapArrestedLeap Of FaithDoubt And FearStronger Than Ever Author:Erica Tazel
“For mental and emotional health, quiet time is very important to me. I need a point in every day that I disconnect from all electronics and reconnect to my center. I pray and meditate. I drink a ton of water and believe in a good night's sleep.” NeedsBelieveImportantNightWaterSleepEmotionalPrayingDrinkQuietI PrayGood NightEmotional HealthElectronicsQuiet Time Author:Erica Tazel
“I handle my emotional pain by changing my mind-set. Exercising can exorcise emotional pain. Prayer and meditation. Visualization. Being able to talk about it by opening yourself to loved ones or a professional.” MindAblePainPrayerMeditationEmotionalExerciseHandleOpeningLoved OnesVisualizationEmotional PainMind SetChanging My Mind Author:Regina Taylor
“I happen to be a very passionate person, so when I first feel emotional pain, I take it very hard. I'll more than likely have a mild breakdown for a few moments, but I allow myself to feel these emotions, release them, and learn to use that hurt as my strength for change. I believe that you can take all experiences and use them as knowledge and fuel to be a better person.” FeelsFirstsBelievePersonsHardMomentsUseHappensPainI BelieveHurtEmotionEmotionalPassionateReleaseFuelBreakdownBetter PersonEmotional PainBeing A Better Person Author:Allison Holker
“We are inducting Connor "The Crusher" Michalek into the WWE Hall of Fame with the Warrior Award, and it's going to be really hard with the waves of emotion that will set in. I will have to share with everyone what he meant to me and also deal with how sad his story is. He was so inspiring to people, it is going to be really emotional for me. It should be very special!” PeopleShouldHardStoriesDealsEmotionShareSpecialEmotionalFameWaveWarriorHallsAwardsWweHall Of Fame Author:Daniel Bryan
“In order to handle my emotional pain I talk to friends about it, I write, I breathe, and most of all, I put it in perspective.” WritingPainOrderEmotionalPerspectiveBreatheHandleEmotional Pain Author:Lisa Loeb
“When I am confronted with emotional pain, I try to allow myself the time to properly grieve. We are caring, emotional beings, and attempting to suppress pain will only cause it to negatively manifest itself in other ways.” WayTryingPainCausesEmotionalCaringGrievingManifestAttemptingEmotional Pain Author:Amanda Schull
“I have witnessed firsthand the anguish of this humanitarian tragedy - in Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and other conflict and post-conflict zones. The destruction of lives and hopes, the emotional trauma, and the economic, social, and political marginalization of the displaced, the human insecurity, with real and potentially devastating consequences over generations, in ever-widening arenas of conflict. We can and must ensure the human rights of the displaced. That begins by making their voices heard.” HumansRealPoliticalSocialVoiceRightsGenerationsHeardEconomicEmotionalConflictConsequenceDestructionTragedyHuman RightsIraqTraumaHumanitarianPostsZoneInsecuritySyriaAnguishPakistanPalestineArenaMarginalizationEmotional Trauma Author:Queen Noor of Jordan
“I work out on almost a daily basis wherever I am, but yoga brings into that equation something that is ideal for me to maintain a physical and emotional and mental kind of balance, and to stay healthy - I see it as a way of investing in my future.” WayKindEmotionalBalanceHealthyYogaIdealsBasesInvestingWork OutEquationsMy Future Author:Queen Noor of Jordan
“Sometimes it's binge eating as a method to handle emotional pain. I'll also write very sporadically - music, lyrics - to identify the problem. There are a few cathartic processes I've alternated randomly. There's no default. Each emotional experience elicits a different, possibly new response.” WritingDifferentSometimesProblemPainProcessEmotionalEatingMethodResponseHandleEmotional PainDefaultBingeCatharticBinge Eating Author:Brendan Dooling
“In order to handle emotional pain I cry. I vent. I zone out in front of the TV to escape. Then, after I allow myself to feel it and be human, I try my best to put things in perspective and start moving forward again. I consciously focus on my blessings and remember what has gotten me through my past struggles: my faith and the belief that everything happens for a reason.” FeelsTryingHumansReasonHappensPainPastRememberMovingOrderBeliefStruggleFocusFrontsCryEmotionalTvsPerspectiveBlessingThings HappenHandleMoving ForwardZoneMy PastEmotional PainEverything Happens For A ReasonHappens For A ReasonMy Blessing Author:Trista Sutter
“Early on, my emotional work had to do with feeling unheard and invisible. My parents divorce at six, when I was six, really affected me. We moved around and I was with my mom and my sister. I have learned, by the way, there were amazing gifts that came out of that. For one, I'm living my childhood dream. I feel very fortunate.” WayFeelsFeelingsDreamParentChildhoodEmotionalMomSixMovedMy MomDivorceInvisibleFortunateAffectedMy SisterI Have LearnedUnheardChildhood DreamsParents Divorce Author:Daphne Zuniga