“I see this with experienced writers, too: They worry so much about the plot that they lose sight of the characters. They lose sight of why they are telling the story. They don't let the characters actually speak. Characters will start to dictate the story in sometimes surprising, emotional, and funny ways. If the writers are not open to those surprises, they're going to strangle the life, spark, or spirit out of their work.” IfsWayBookSometimesCharacterStoriesSpiritSpeakLosesWorryEmotionalSightSurpriseComicPlotSparksSurprisingComic Book Author:Brian Michael Bendis
“When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.” PeopleWritingBookWantedNextStrongCasesEmotionalSkillsPerformersEmotional Intelligence Author:Daniel Goleman
“Alternative Lifestyles, the emotional fly-drive packages of our times, come equipped with a set of clothes, a choice of authors, a limited menu of sports and a discount coupon book of clichés.” BookChoicesSportsEmotionalClothesLifestyleAlternativesOur TimePackagesMenusDiscounts Book:Close to Home Source: Close to Home
“I was immediately swept up in Ariane's story. Equal parts thrill-ride and love story, The Rules is intense and emotional. This book stays with you long after you finish.” LongBookStoriesEmotionalEqualAnd LoveIntenseLove StoryThrill Author:Sophie Jordan
“Neiman's book is written with considerable flair, as many critics have already noted, but it possesses a far rarer and more valuable quality: moral seriousness. Her argument builds a powerful emotional force, a sense of deep inevitability. . . . It is not often that a work of such dark conclusions has felt so hopeful and brave.” BookForceFeltDarkPowerfulQualityMoralWrittenEmotionalArgumentBraveCriticsValuableConclusionHopefulSeriousnessInevitabilityFlair Author:Mark Kingwell
“My mom was in education, and I remember reading in one of her books about multiple intelligences - this whole theory about how there are all these different ways you can be intelligent, like eight or 10 of them or something. And one of them is emotional.” WayBookDifferentWholeRememberReadingEmotionalTheoryMomIntelligentMy MomEightDifferent WaysMultipleMultiple Intelligences Author:Lynn Shelton
“For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.” FirstsBookCharacterHomeActorsCryEmotionalInvolvedMovieWrapsSo Sad Author:Salma Hayek
“You [as an actor] have a responsibility to Jonathan's book and you have a responsibility to talk about a subject that is going to be, whether it's contentious or not, it's going t bring up a huge, emotional response from people. A lot of people will say they are ready or they're not ready.” PeopleBookActorsResponsibilitySubjectsEmotionalReadyHugeResponseNot ReadyEmotional ResponseContentious Author:Stephen Daldry
“I think the book is less emotional than the film. With the film, the emotions are much more raw and in front. In the book, they are kind of ironized and seen through comedy.” ThinkingKindBookFilmEmotionComedyFrontsEmotional Author:Salman Rushdie
“People who take books on sex to bed become frigid. You get self-conscious. You can't think a story. You can't think, "I shall do a story to improve mankind." Well, it's nonsense. All the great stories, all the really worthwhile plays, are emotional experiences. If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't. A story is the same way. You either feel a story and need to write it, or you better not write it.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayNeedsFeelsWritingWellsBookSelfPlayStoriesGirlAsksSexForgetBoysMankindEmotionalBedConsciousNonsenseWorthwhileForget ItSelf ConsciousFrigid Author:Ray Bradbury
“I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.” ThinkingBookCharacterWantedActorsEmotional Author:Scott Cohen
“My work is very dear to me, and certainly I have had all the emotional highs and lows that go with trying to get it to an audience. But I do have some kind of detachment that seems somewhat unusual in my trade. I'm a writer who writes every day. I don't have a period of months where I can't get anything done and I wander around tearing my hair out. When I come back from a book tour, for instance, I might have one day where I sleep late and then check my e-mail, and then go for a walk, and then the next day I'm really itching to get back at writing a story.” WritingTryingKindI CanBookDoneStoriesSeemsMightNextSleepWalksAudienceEmotionalHairMonthsPeriodsOne DayLateLowsTradeDearChecksInstanceWanderGet BackUnusualMailNext DayDetachmentHighs And LowsItchingSleep Late Author:Daniel Handler
“The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason for writing the book. [...] The other motive is unconscious. There is something deeply psychological and emotional that draws me to the material in the first place.” WayWritingFirstsTwoBookIdeasReasonSeemsEmotionalMaterialsIntellectualDrawsPsychologicalMotiveUnconsciousTwo Ways Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“The reason writers are such fragile beings, Marcus, is that they suffer from two sorts of emotional pain, which is twice as much as a normal human being: the heartache of love and the heartache of books. Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.” WritingHumansHeartTwoBookReasonPainSufferingHuman BeingsEmotionalNormalPainfulHeartacheFragileWriting A BookLoving SomeoneEmotional PainBook Writing Author:Joel Dicker
“The relationship between book and reader is intimate, at best a kind of love affair, and first loves are famously tenacious. [...] First love is a momentous step in our emotional education, and in many ways, it shapes us forever.” WayFirstsKindBookLove IsStepsForeverEmotionalReaderShapesAffairIntimateFirst LoveLove AffairKinds Of LoveTenacious Author:Laura Miller
“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
“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
“Anyway, when I finished the book, I handed it in, didn't want to read it again, but when it finally was in print I felt like OK, I have to read this. And yeah, I thought God, this is petty, this is silly, too emotional, too raw...and maybe it was then, but now it all seems that it's so much better because all the stuff that felt petty and silly now seems more relevant because Andy was so important.” WantImportantBookSeemsFeltStuffEmotionalYeahFinishedSillyPrintRelevantPetty Author:Bob Colacello
“I always tell people, "There's a book on everyone." I get some of that book before I do anything. If I want to deeply understand someone's reputation, I'll talk to their friends, their former bosses, their peers, and I'll learn a lot about them. I want them to be trusted. I want them to be respected. I want them to give a s - -. Then there are the intangibles: physical and emotional stamina, the ability to confront issues. I can ask all I want about those things, but I also have to see a lot of it.” PeopleIfsWantGivingI CanBookAsksAbilityIssuesEmotionalReputationFormerBossTrustedPeersStamina Author:Jamie Dimon
“I want to engage the reader. I'm an emotional writer, in the sense that I would be happy if you re-read a book for the intellectual or the mental part of it, but, the first time, I just like to reach out and grab you, pull you in.” IfsWantFirstsBookWould BeEmotionalReaderIntellectualFirst TimeReach Out Author:Stephen King
“The new book is amazing. It's called, The Pleiadian Promise. I get emotional when I just connect to it, because it's really an amazing, powerful, powerful piece of work.” BookPowerfulPiecesEmotionalPromiseNew Books Author:Christine McCormick Day
“When I read scripts and when I read books, it's more of an emotional response and I was really drawn to these characters.” BookCharacterEmotionalResponseScriptsEmotional Response Author:Katie Holmes
“I guess what I'm trying to say is that whatever weirdness was going to be in there, I felt, had to be earned. And it had to be required by the emotional needs of the book.” NeedsTryingBookFeltEmotionalWeirdnessEmotional Needs Author:George Saunders
“For the book to succeed, it has to have equal parts ugliness and beauty, counterpoints adding up to emotional complexity. To me, there's a dignity in letting your art be emotionally complex.” ArtBookEmotionalSucceedEqualArt IsDignityComplexesComplexityUgliness Author:Joshua Mohr
“I don't like the way most people think. It's imprecise. I find that when parents ask me questions, they ask very imprecise questions. They say, "My kid has behavioral problems at school." Well, I have to say, "What kind of problems? Is he hitting? Is he rude? Does he rock in class?" I need to narrow questions to specifics. I am very pragmatic and intellectual, not emotional. I do get great satisfaction when a parent says, "I read your book, and it really helped me."” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsWellsKindDoeBookProblemKidsSchoolAsksParentClassRocksEmotionalIntellectualSatisfactionAsk MeHittingRudePragmaticSpecifics Author:Temple Grandin
“What I am most proud of with the book On to the Next Dream is how I turned an intensely emotional experience into art. Anyone can run up to a rooftop, tear off their clothes, and scream about how screwed up the world is. But for the people down below, all they see is a person losing their mind. I wanted to make something that channeled that emotion in a way that elicited an empathetic response from the reader. So that after you read this book, you would want to run up to the rooftop and scream about how screwed up the world is.” PeopleWorldMindArtBookDreamRunningEmotionTearsEmotionalProudLosingResponseScreamEmpathetic Author:Paul Madonna
“I have received emails from readers who have said that they were emotionally impacted by the books, and they feel they are more environmentally aware and energized to do more. So that's hopeful to me. It is at least evidence of what I'm trying to do - trying to convey very intense emotional experiences by being very close in on character points of view to make you feel it in your body. That's one way to get the point across, by evoking a visceral response.” TryingBookCharacterEmotionalEvidenceResponsePoint Of ViewIntenseHopeful Author:Jeff VanderMeer
“I think it's important to humanize history; fiction can help us remember. A lot of books I've read in the past have been so much more important than textbooks - there is an emotional connection with one particular person. I'm very much of a research-is-important type of fiction writer, even for contemporary fiction. I wrote about blogs in America and I've never blogged. But I read many, many blogs - usually about feminist things, or about race, or about hair.” ThinkingImportantBookHelpingPastRememberEmotionalFeminist Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Sociopaths differ fairly dramatically in how their brains react to emotional words. An emotional word is love, hate, anger, mom, death, anything that we associate with an emotional reaction. We are wired to process those words more readily than neutral, nonemotional words. We are very emotional creatures. But sociopaths listen as evenly to emotional words as they do to lamp or book - there's no neurological difference.” BookHateBrainEmotionalMomLove HateSociopath Author:Martha Stout
“I'm being provided with some emotional ballast by giving me an intimate portrait of one character in particular in contrast to the collective. I'm fortunate that I had very sympathetic readers, but ordinarily - if a book makes you laugh too much, it shifts from "literature" to "entertainment."” GivingBookCharacterLiteratureLaughingEmotionalIntimateContrastSympathetic Author:Joshua Ferris
“There were times where I felt I was pressing a little bit too hard with the humor, and I had to pull back, because the overriding concern of the book was to create this disease that had no cure and make you pay attention to every emotional stage of what happens.” BookAttentionEmotionalConcernPay Attention Author:Joshua Ferris
“A lot of readers ask me, "Do you ever get emotional while writing the book?" or "Did you cry when you killed this character?" And the truth is, no, I didn't. That's not really the way I approach it. I don't get emotional while writing, but then there are plenty of other authors who do.” WritingBookCharacterCryEmotionalTruth IsPlentyAsk Me Author:Victoria Aveyard
“I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth.” WritingTwoBookCharacterStoriesBitsMinutesEmotionalReaderDepthIntimacyTelling Stories Author:David Walliams