“Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one's work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature, first one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement. One can even tell the nature of one's readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.” MenFirstsLongBodyHandsSidesInterestingResultsEmotionalReaderAchievementMarkCriticalEndlessWorking ItLooking BackPreferenceUpper Hand Author:John Galsworthy
“I have a really good idea of who my readers are and always write with a sensitivity to my audience. I use the F word when necessary, but there are words I won't use, mainly because I don't like them. I don't write about body parts when I write about sex. It's not about the physiological, it's more important for teens to read about the emotional aspects. I do think there are times when self-censorship is important.” ThinkingWritingImportantIdeasSelfUseBodySexAudienceEmotionalReaderAspectGood IdeasCensorshipTeensSensitivityPhysiologicalSelf Censorship Author:Ellen Hopkins
“Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.” KindLongCharacterWrittenEmotionalReaderEmbraceAll Kinds Author:David Levithan
“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
“The illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when you have footnotes.” StoriesEmotionalReaderIllusionAgreementTemperatureFootnotes Author:John Updike
“Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical component to it and engages the reader on a visceral level and evokes a strong sympathetic reaction. High art is people driving in Volvos and talking a lot. I just don't want to keep those things separate. I think you can use visceral physical experiences to illustrate larger ideas, whether they're emotional or spiritual. I'm trying to not exclude high and low art or separate them.” PeopleThinkingWantTryingArtIdeasUseSeemsSpiritualCultureStrongLevelsTalkingEmotionalReaderHorrorIntellectualLowsArt IsDrivingReactionsPornographyComponentsSympatheticEvokeVisceralHighs And LowsHigh ArtVolvo Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a moral, philosophical and emotional level.” WorldStoriesLiteratureLevelsMoralEmotionalReaderEssencePhilosophical Author:Orhan Pamuk
“When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were writing encyclopedia entries instead of stories. Their hesitancy about physical and psychological intimacy can be a barrier to vital fiction. Conversely, a narration that makes readers hear the characters' heavy breathing and smell their emotional anguish diminishes distance. Readers feel so close to the characters that, for those magical moments, they become those characters.” IfsFeelsWritingSelfMomentsCharacterStoriesFictionEmotionalReaderConsciousDistanceHeavySmellPsychologicalIntimacyBreathingBarriersAnguishDiminishSelf ConsciousEntryEncyclopediaNarrationMagical Moments Author:Jerome Stern
“Most of what I read is for reviewing purposes or related to something I want to write about. It's slightly utilitarian. I definitely miss that sense of being a disinterested reader who's reading purely for the pleasure of imagining his way into emotional situations and vividly realized scenes in nineteenth-century France or late nineteenth-century Russia.” WayWantWritingPurposeReadingPleasureSituationCenturyMissingEmotionalReaderSceneLateRussiaFranceRelatedNineteenth CenturyDisinterestedUtilitarian Author:Pankaj Mishra
“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 not against standardized tests. There are tests and tests and tests, and, to simplify, the ones I favor are criterion-referenced tests of skills, aligned with the curriculum. Social and emotional skills are important but skills are too. I find it heartbreaking that this is so often seen as an either-or choice. To get to the richness of studying literature, for example, you must first be an adept and confident reader. Whether you are is something a good test can measure.” FirstsImportantChoicesLiteratureSocialStudyExampleEmotionalReaderSkillsTestsFavorsCriteriaRichnessSimplifyHeartbreakingCurriculumAdeptEither OrStudying Literature Author:Nicholas Lemann
“To me exposition always contains tenderness. While a dramatized scene is a way of proving and guaranteeing an emotional experience for the reader, exposition assumes that the reader is sophisticated and can see the universal.” WayEmotionalReaderSceneProveUniversalAssumingTendernessSophisticated Author:Akhil Sharma
“I believe the personal essay is underrated for both writer and reader. It affords the writer great freedom: to speak personally yet invoke others' ideas, to be rational and/or emotional, to be confident or admit doubt.” BelieveIdeasSpeakI BelieveDoubtEmotionalReaderRationalEssaysBe ConfidentInvokeUnderratedPersonal EssaysGreat Freedom Author:Marty Nemko
“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
“My "mission", if you can call it that, is to connect with my readers on an emotional level and have them come away with a stronger impression of the basic message in the story I am illustrating.” IfsStoriesLevelsEmotionalReaderMessagesStrongerMissionsImpressionIllustrating Author:Floyd Cooper
“The last thing I want is that sense of artifice - rather I want the reader drawn into the story and lost in it and vested in it. So the emotional connection is everything, albeit a connection on my terms.” WantStoriesLastsLostTermEmotionalReaderConnectionsArtificeEmotional Connection Author:Steve Erickson
“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
“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