“It's often hard to determine, especially in early drafts, whether or not a story has a bona fide complication. Remember this: A complication must either illuminate, thwart, or alter what the character wants. A good complication puts emotional pressure on a character, promoting that character not only to act, but to act with purpose.If the circumstance does none of these things, then it's not a complication at all - it's a situation. This situation, or setup, might be interesting or even astonishing, but it gives the story no point of departure.” IfsWantGivingWritingDoeHardCharacterStoriesMightRememberPurposeInterestingSituationEmotionalCircumstancesPressureDeterminePromotingAstonishingNo PointDepartureComplicationSetups Author:Monica Wood
“I don't really remember much before was eight, but I do remember that my dad brought me to drop me off at my grandmother's house, and he was a very emotional guy, but that was the first time I really saw him cry, cos I knew it killed him to have to give me up, but he knew I needed some family structure. That was the last time I'd see him or talk to him when he was sober for the next 10 years.” GivingYearsFirstsLastsRememberGuyNextHouseSawsCryEmotionalNeededDadFirst TimeGive MeStructureMy DadEightGrandmotherLast TimeSoberMy Grandmother Author:Diamond Dallas Page
“The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.” GivingCharacterEmotionalConnectionsMemoirNarrativeGenreEmotional Connection Author:Mary Karr
“We've always liked music in movies, you know, just 'cause it helps tell the story. It can be emotional. It can be funny. It can be so many different things. And it just and it gives you variety from and again, there's a certain stylization that happens with music. Animation and music seem to go together well.” KnowsGivingWellsDifferentHelpingStoriesSeemsHappensTogetherCertainCausesEmotionalVarietyDifferent ThingsAnimation Author:John Musker
“I soon found I could not talk about that in a vacuum without understanding the historical, cultural, political context, and giving it some legacy and some roots, and so then it just started to have tentacles that just spread out in all these places, and already a vicious project became pretty overwhelming in scope, and so it was a lot of diligent, day-to-day fighting with the footage, trying to get it down to a place where it was manageable and emotional.” GivingTryingPoliticalFightingFoundUnderstandingEmotionalProjectsRootsHistoricalSpreadLegacyOverwhelmingDay To DayViciousScopeVacuumsDiligentManageableTentacles Author:Ava DuVernay
“One has to give minority groups a kind of reward, an emotional reward, that it is worthwhile assimilating to this particular majority group. And if this majority group looks down on itself ... If a minority group is not given some pride in assimilating to the culture of another group then the process is very difficult.” GivingKindCultureDifficultEmotionalPride Author:Norbert Elias
“I think there is nothing that can replace your emotional response. The biggest mistakes I have ever made in my life are when people told me, "You really should produce this. It's a guaranteed hit." I would read the material and I would go, "I don't get it, but okay, I'll produce it." You're giving up that much of your life, your time with family and friends, to something that you're not really committed to - and they did not pan out the way everyone said they would, even though I worked just as hard.” PeopleThinkingGivingMistakeEmotionalGiving UpOkayResponseCommittedFamily And FriendsBiggest Mistake Author:Gale Anne Hurd
“I believe that to create real-seeming characters, the writer must be willing to go on a voyage of self-exploration. It can be revealing and even painful to explore your own weakness, but it gives you genuine emotion. Characters in fiction come alive because of the believability of their emotional lives and that is what I strive to create.” GivingBelieveCharacterI BelieveEmotionEmotionalWeaknessStrivePainful Author:Sara Paretsky
“I actually recommend as little actual counting as possible in a life partnership. But, when there's a sense of injustice brewing between you, some counting is inevitable, and so my advice is to count using as broad a scope as possible. It's not just hours worked or chores done, either, and it's not even just about the household - it's a system of Whole Marriage Thinking. It's about hours worked, chores done, goals supported, emotional needs met, everything. What it all takes out of you, what it all gives back. It all factors in.” ThinkingGivingDoneGoalHoursAdviceEmotionalInjusticeInevitablePartnershipGiving BackChoresLife Partner Author:Carolyn Hax
“I feel vulnerable sometimes - when I see an emotional scene, for example - and I remember what it took to get to that place, and I fear sometimes that everybody else can see that. You bare a part of you that makes you uncomfortable. I freely give it, I know, but I feel like people know something about me that I wouldn't otherwise give freely to a stranger.” PeopleGivingSometimesRememberEmotionalSceneStrangerVulnerableUncomfortable Author:Diane Kruger
“If you're doing a musical, you should be out to give the audience something special, emotional, an uplifting feeling, something that stays with them.” GivingFeelingsAudienceSpecialEmotionalMusicalUplifting Author:Robert Lopez
“There are a couple of writers I admired who were very good at giving the character's emotion without stating what that emotion was. Not saying "He was feeling tense," instead saying, "His hand squeezed harder on the chair arm," as if staying outside the guy. I wanted to try doing that. I wanted to have a really emotional story in which the characters' emotions are never straight - out told to you, but you get it.” GivingTryingFeelingsGuyEmotionEmotionalCoupleVery Good Author:Donald E. Westlake
“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
“We met a couple months before the In the Land of Blood and Honey filming started. Angelina Jolie said, "Whatever you want, just ask for it." So we sat down and talked about it. She was great from the beginning, saying that this is essentially a story of my kind, my experience, my war, my country. In a way, she was giving us blank check to fill in the emotional landscape and do our best, really. She was really supportive and kind and open and creative.” GivingKindWarCountryCreativeEmotionalCoupleSatSupportive Author:Goran Kostic
“I think we give Jimmy Carter too much credit to think he knew what was going to happen when he used the word "apartheid." It's provocative, but it was like a nuclear bomb in Israel. And yet that word is used all the time in the Israeli press. There's a double standard there. He probably picked it up in Israel, as it's commonly discussed. I'd be a little surprised if he understood how it was going to be used against him. He doesn't have a highly developed emotional detector. As a politician, that was a weakness.” ThinkingGivingEmotionalPoliticianWeaknessIsraeliJimmyProvocativeApartheidDouble StandardNuclear Bomb Author:Lawrence Wright
“There is a lot of new research about how stress hormones affect your body and how you can work on giving your body as much of the good hormones as possible, because that heals your body. I am quite a rational person - so when someone could show me that there was a rational way of seeing fear in terms of stress hormones, it was easier for me to understand. I think all autoimmune diseases are very sensitive to stress. It is typical that the flares come after a period of emotional stress. The connection is quite clear.” ThinkingGivingTermEmotionalStressHealRationalSensitiveShow Me Author:Ane Brun
“When people hear that I have a chronic illness, they'll say things like "Focus on you." Well, my spiritual and emotional fulfillment is based not on who I am but on what I can give. Plus, many of my favorite philosophers suggested that self-fulfillment is found through service. Who am I to argue with them?” PeopleGivingSpiritualFocusEmotionalMy FavoritePhilosopherIllnessArguingFulfillment Author:Karen Duffy
“I do think music and the arts are imperative for our kids for their creative learning and their emotional education, which breeds better adults. I'm doing what I can to try and pick up the slack and I applaud anyone who tries to give back to their community.” ThinkingGivingTryingArtKidsCommunityCreativeEmotionalGiving Back Author:Sarah McLachlan
“Writing the songs is always emotional and most of the vocals on there are the first three takes from the demos, because they give so much more. You're in that moment, so it speaks for itself.” GivingWritingMomentsSongSpeakEmotional Author:Tove Lo
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.” GivingArtPhilosophyReligionValuesFriendshipRelationshipEmotionalFriendsSurvivalNovelistsUnnecessaryGood FriendReal FriendsMy Best FriendTrue FriendshipBest FriendMy FriendshipAbout FriendshipNew FriendsLove And FriendshipFriendship LoveFriendship MemoriesLost FriendshipOne Line FriendshipEssayistsBest FriendshipFriendship DayFriend LoveGreat FriendshipFemale FriendshipLasting FriendshipFriends And EnemiesNew FriendshipOne FriendFriendship GardenHappy Friendship DayFriends For LifeCircle Of FriendsDeep FriendshipBeing A Good FriendThat One FriendSweet FriendshipGood FriendshipFemale FriendsAwesome FriendshipFriendships And RelationshipsHeart Touching FriendsMeaningful FriendshipUnique FriendshipSweet FriendHeart Touching FriendshipCelebrating With FriendsI Have No FriendsThank You FriendshipNice FriendSongs And FriendshipNice FriendshipValued FriendsTouching FriendshipMeaning Of FriendshipValue Of Love Author:C. S. Lewis
“Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.” GivingHurtEmotionEmotionalForgivenessLaughterAngerAngryForgivingTeethMusclesResentmentForgivenHolding OnTenseResentHeadacheLightnessAsking For ForgivenessLove HurtWhat Is ForgivenessInspirational ForgivenessSelf ForgivenessAnger And ForgivenessPower Of LaughterAnger And ResentmentAnger ResentmentInspirational LaughterAnger And HurtFeeling AngryAngry WordsAnger And BitternessLetting Go Of AngerWords Of AngerResent YouBitterness And Resentment Author:Joan Lunden
“If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.” IfsGivingWritingI CanLaughingCryEmotionalReaderSceneCostGive MeGood DayTypewritersHave A Good DayClout Author:Alan Moore
“Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.” GivingMadeParentGrowing UpGrowingSacrificeChildhoodEmotionalHonorDeserveStressIllnessInfancyHonor And RespectEmotional Stress Book:Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice Source: Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice
“I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.” GivingTryingMotivationalActionMotivationEmotionalHeroVillainMy HeroHeroes And Villains Author:Sidney Sheldon
“The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.” GivingStoriesMissingDesignEmotionalInternetComputerMathematicalFree SpeechEyebrowsMissing You Author:Frank Zappa