“And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.” LooksEndsHalfWrittenCryPagesAwfulThe End Of The DayHmmExperiencing Things Author:Zoe Kazan
“In Britain we have a very powerful tabloid culture with celebrities on the front page crying with their make-up smeared and tears, and it's kind of what you'd expect from someone who likes to dress up that way.” WayKindCulturePowerfulFrontsCryTearsPagesDressesLikesBritainVery PowerfulTabloids Author:Eddie Izzard
“This used to be about sex. The literature of my people was pornography, filled with cries for mercy, drama enacted on people without prolonged negotiation, partners engaged in a dance in the middle of a bonfire. Now, it's 300-page manuals about how to make sure nothing bad will happen.” PeopleHappensUsedLiteratureSexMiddleCryDramaPagesMercyFilledPartnersUsed To BeEngagedNegotiationPornographyManualsBonfire Author:Laura Antoniou
“For most of my adult life, I have been an emotional hit-and- run driver--that is, a reporter. I made people like me, trust me, open their hearts and their minds to me, and cry and bleed on to the pages of my neat little notebooks, and then I went back to a safe place and made a story out of it.” PeopleMindHeartLittlesHas BeensMadeStoriesRunningCryEmotionalTrustSafeNewsPagesAdultsLike MeDriversReportersTrust MeNotebookNeatSafe Places Book:Living Out Loud Source: Living Out Loud
“I believe with all my heart in delivering on my contract with my readers. They've got plenty of other things to do, so I had better give them a reason to turn every one of these 550 pages. This is my promise: I solemnly swear I'll make you laugh out loud at least once, cry a little in private, and burn whatever you left on the stove.” GivingBelieveHeartLittlesReasonTurnsLeftI BelieveLaughingCryReaderMy HeartPromisePagesPlentyLoudThings To DoContractsSwearDeliveringMake You LaughStovesLaugh Out Loud Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“I hope I'll keep people up at night, unable to stop turning pages. That's my goal: exhausted, emotionally drained readers who can't stop crying.” PeopleNightGoalCryReaderPagesExhaustedDrained Author:Jillian Medoff
“Sometimes when reading aloud to my husband, I'll start crying. It completely stuns me. As if the words in my body and on the page - in relation to each other - are cocooned against my own feelings about what I'm writing until they're loosed in the air and become their own. Then I realize what I may or may not have done.” IfsWritingMaySometimesDoneFeelingsBodyReadingRealizingMy OwnAirCryHusbandPagesRelationMy HusbandReading Aloud Author:Julianna Baggott
“We go from Malachi to Matthew in one page of our scriptures, but that one piece of paper that separates the Old Testament from the New Testament represents 400 years of history - 400 years where there wasn't a prophet, 400 years where God's voice wasn't heard. And that silence was broken with the cry of a baby on Christmas night.” YearsNightVoiceSilencePiecesHeardCryBrokenBabyPaperPagesScriptureProphetTestamentNew TestamentOld TestamentOne PieceMatthew Author:Louie Giglio
“There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom. Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.” KnowsMenMindWellsHeartChildrenEndsCountryEarthLawHateFallEnjoySilenceTalkingSunGoneSadnessLandCryFieldsBrokenPagesLovelyBelovedCustomsTribesHeart And MindDoomMessengersBeloved CountryCry The Beloved Country Author:Alan Paton
“I could not cry for my own brother; he would not want me to. But I found myself crying for this hated stranger and the endless slaughter that I had almost contributed to." (page 8)” WantFoundMy OwnCryBrotherPagesStrangerEndlessHatedWant MeSlaughter Author:Amelia Atwater-Rhodes