“You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want them to say clearly and concisely. It's far more difficult to get people to think like a writer, to give up conventional habits of mind and emotion. You must be able to step inside your character's skin, and at the same time to remain outside the dicey circumstances you have maneuvered her into.” PeopleThinkingWantGivingWritingMindCharacterAbleDifficultEmotionStepsTeachHabitCircumstancesGiving UpSkinsDeterminedSentencesWhat You WantConventionalParagraphBasicsHabits Of Mind Author:Anne Bernays
“Beautiful women seldom want to act. They are afraid of emotion and they do not try to extract anything from a character that they are portraying, because in expressing emotion they may encourage crow's feet and laughing wrinkles. They avoid anything that will disturb their placidity of countenance, for placidity of countenance insures a smooth skin.” WantTryingMayCharacterBeautifulEmotionLaughingFeetSkinsSmoothBeautiful WomenCrowWrinklesCountenancePortrayingExpressing EmotionsSmooth Skin Author:Laurette Taylor
“What they smell isn't the emotion of fear. What dogs can smell is the changes in a person's skin that suggest fear to the dog, anxiety, the way your skin sweats, the amount of uric acid that suddenly pours out of your pores.” WayPersonsEmotionDogAmountAnxietySkinsSmellSweatAcid Author:Robert Crais
“When we talk about emotion, we really talk about a collection of behaviors that are produced by the brain. You can look at a person in the throes of an emotion and observe changes in the face, in the body posture, in the coloration of the skin and so on.” LooksPersonsBodyFacesEmotionBrainBehaviorSkinsCollectionsPosture Author:Antonio Damasio
“In the performing arts you have to have thick, thick, thick skin, because of all the rejection you face on a daily basis, and the fact that work never lasts for very long. But you need thin, thin, thin skin in order to access all of your emotions and your creativity so that you can express it. You can't be dead inside. Otherwise you've got nothing to give. So it's a paradox, that we have to exist in both planes in order to do what we do.” NeedsGivingLongArtFactsLastsFacesOrderEmotionCreativitySkinsBasesAccessPlanesPerformingRejectionParadoxThickPerforming ArtsThick Skin Author:Audra McDonald
“For me, intrigue is a pretty powerful emotion. If you want to know more about a character, if you want to understand how they work, then you have enough curiosity to delve into their skin and their being. That was the biggest pull for me.” EnoughCharacterPowerfulEmotionSkinsCuriosity Author:A Fine Frenzy
“I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsHumansHuman BeingsEmotionClearBloodHairHappeningsSkinsGreedFleshHorribleCharacteristicsMaskSanitySlipsDisgustingVergePsychoFrenzyBloodlust Author:Bret Easton Ellis
“I felt an unrelenting restlessness. It was the first time I had ever experienced jealousy, and that emotion clung to my skin day and night like a dark stain, a contamination I could not shed; it became so unbearable that when finally I rid myself of it, I was freed forever of the desire to possess another person or the temptation ever to belong to anyone.” FirstsPersonsDesireNightFeltDarkEmotionForeverFirst TimeSkinsTemptationShedUnbearableDay And NightStainsRestlessnessUnrelentingContamination Book:Eva Luna: A Novel Source: Eva Luna: A Novel
“I'm numb and I'm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I'd been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I'm soaked to the skin with emotion.” IfsFeelsTodayHoursEmotionToo MuchHappenedRainSkinsTiredEightFortyCoatsNumbI'm TiredUmbrellaForty Eight Book:The Martian Chronicles Source: The Martian Chronicles
“Have you ever been anyone's?" I ask, a feathery whisper in the quiet bedroom. He lifts his head to mine, and I want him so bad I feel consumed inside, like he's already possessed my soul, and now my soul aches for him to possess my body. A powerful emotion tightens his features as he reaches out to cradle my cheek in his big hand, and there's an unexpected fierceness in his eyes, in his touch, as he cups me. "No. And you?" The calluses in his palm rasp on my skin, and I find myself tucking my cheek deeper into them. "I've never wanted to." "Neither have I." The moment is intimate.” WantFeelsSoulMomentsBodyHandsBigsEyeWantedAsksPowerfulEmotionMinesQuietSkinsDeeperMy SoulCupsLiftsFeaturesIntimateHis EyesUnexpectedReach OutPossessedCheeksBedroomPalmsAcheConsumedCradleWant HimFiercenessPowerful EmotionsCalluses Author:Katy Evans
“Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.” IdeasTogetherPoetryLanguageEmotionPoetOrdinaryToughSkinsRaisedPoetry IsDelicateReading PoetryPoetry By Famous PoetsPoetry By PoetsPoetry ReadingTough Skin Author:Paul Engle