“It's like an emotional dance party: Some dances will be your favorites -- others more awkward or difficult to learn. Some will be boring or make you mad. some you will wish you never needed to do again. But AHA! You think. I will dance all the dances I can.” ThinkingI CanWishDifficultPartyEmotionalNeededMadBoringAwkwardWish YouYour FavoriteDance Party Author:Sark
“Conscience is a creator of meaning. As a sense of constraint rooted in our emotional ties to one another, it prevents life from devolving into nothing but a long and essentially boring game of attempted dominance over our fellow human beings, and for every limitation conscience imposes on us, it gives us a moment of connectedness with an other, a bridge to someone or something outside of our often meaningless schemes.” GivingHumansLongMomentsGamesHuman BeingsEmotionalConscienceFellowsCreatorBoringLimitationBridgesTiesMeaninglessRootedSchemesConstraintsDominanceConnectedness Author:Martha Stout
“With Rodham, for instance, it has to work on an emotional level. It has to work on a character level. If it's only "Look, it has famous people," then it's a wax museum come to life and that's really boring. It's sort of like what they say about science fiction and horror where the really good ones, if you remove that element of it, it still has to work. That's the reason The Shining works or Rosemary's Baby or Blade Runner.” PeopleIfsLooksStillsReasonCharacterLevelsFictionEmotionalBabyHorrorElementsScience FictionShiningBoringInstanceRemoveMuseumsRunnersBladesRosemaryBlade Runner Author:James Ponsoldt
“What does it mean to go deeper? Taking pictures when you're more emotional or sorrowful, or having sex? I just want to have really boring snapshots - people just standing in front of a camera taking pictures with a smile.” PeopleWantMeanDoeSexFrontsEmotionalStandingCamerasBoringDeeperHaving SexSnapshotsSorrowfulTaking Pictures Author:Nikki S. Lee
“I have insanely dorky taste. Basically, if you're a woman, and you're under any kind of emotional duress, and you sing a song, I will listen to it forever. It's odd being a 37-year-old heterosexual male who owns nothing but Sarah McLachlan and Tori Amos. But I'll go against that at first and play something boring like James Taylor.” IfsYearsFirstsKindPlaySongForeverEmotionalTasteMalesBoringOddDorkyDuress Author:Matthew Perry
“I began to see, again and again, stories that were first confusing and second where the emotional impact was muted because the big scene came before the explanation of what was going on. There was a reverse chronological order as well as a concealment of what exactly was going on. I think often that comes out of the fear of being boring, and sometimes I think it's just an attempt to seem clever.” ThinkingFirstsWellsSometimesStoriesBigsSeemsOrderEmotionalSceneImpactBoringCleverExplanationAgain And AgainReverseConfusingConcealment Author:Alice Mattison
“I left things out - my motivations, my history, my emotional responses - because I am not good at understanding them or writing about them. I tried and it was generally boring and always unconvincing. Most importantly I wanted to try to place Afghans and Afghanistan in the foreground rather than my own character.” WritingTryingCharacterMotivationUnderstandingEmotionalResponseBoringAfghanistan Author:Rory Stewart
“Unless you're very boring, I think most people who've lived long enough have something in their past which will never go away. As a writer, my interest has become in writing about much more emotional, personal topics. I'm trying to reach into subjects I have never written about before.” PeopleThinkingWritingTryingLongEnoughPastInterestEmotionalBoringGoing Away Author:John Boyne
“The subject for a lot of non-fiction is very emotional, but if you read it, it's the most boring, dry stuff. I wanted 'Torn Apart' to be extremely accessible and readable.” IfsWantedStuffFictionSubjectsEmotionalBoringDryTornNon FictionTorn Apart Author:James Patterson