“I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.” PeopleWritingBeliefCryInspiredOverwhelmingConfessionShiver Book:Shiver Source: Shiver
“When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.” WritingLooksFacesMovingLaughingCryFool Author:Zoe Kazan
“These kids will make you cry, laugh... They make you feel all kinds of emotions through their writings and they share a lot with me, as an instructor, that they might not normally share with other people because they are young artists and they need a platform for pulling that stuff out.” PeopleNeedsFeelsWritingKindMightKidsYoungArtistStuffEmotionLaughingShareCryAll KindsPlatformsPullingCreative WritingInstructorsYoung ArtistsMake You Cry Author:Clinton D. Powell
“When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.” IfsKnowsWritingMadeEmotionLaughingCrySittingVisceral Author:Brit Marling
“I write romance, women's fiction, chicklit. I think it all fits very comfortably under the same umbrella. Basically, I write books for women - books about relationships, books that make you laugh and sometimes make you cry a little.” ThinkingWritingLittlesBookSometimesRomanceFictionLaughingCryFitUmbrellaMake You LaughMake You Cry Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips
“What do prisoners do? Write, of course; even if they have to use blood as ink, as the Marquis de Sade did. The reasons they write, the exquisitely frustrating restrictions of their autonomy and the fact that no one listens to their cries, are all the reasons that mentally ill people, and even many normal people write. We write to escape our prisons.” PeopleIfsWritingReasonFactsUseCoursesBloodCryNormalPrisonIllPrisonerAutonomyFrustratingInkRestrictionMentally Ill Author:Alice Weaver Flaherty
“I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.” MenWritingHumansLaughingCryLaughterCourageous Author:Francois Rabelais
“You know what they're writing about Baby you know what they're writing about It's a thing called love down through the ages Makes you wanna cry sometimes Makes you feel like you wanna lay down and die sometimes Makes you high sometimes But when you really get in it lifts you right up.” KnowsFeelsWritingSometimesAgeDiesCryLike YouBabyDown AndLaysLifts Author:Van Morrison
“Is not the real experience of each individual very limited? And, if a writer dwells upon that solely or principally, is he not in danger of repeating himself, and also of becoming an egotist? Then, too, imagination is a strong, restless faculty, which claims to be heard and exercised: are we to be quite deaf to her cry, and insensate to her struggles? When she shows us bright pictures, are we never to look at them, and try to reproduce them? And when she is eloquent, and speaks rapidly and urgently in our ear, are we not to write to her dictation?” IfsWritingTryingLooksRealShowsIndividualSpeakStrongImaginationStruggleHeardCryDangerBecomingEarsClaimsFacultyRestlessDeafEloquentDictation Book:Jane Eyre Source: Jane Eyre