Quotes about Emotion in Writing

I hate writing texts to girlfriends because you can't really see emotions in texts. You can get confused on what she says. Votes: 2

I think either you're creative or you're not. In general, I don't think you need to be in pain to actually be creative unless you're writing love songs. Then you might need to have some ups and downs within your emotions to start to capture that. Votes: 2

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion. Votes: 1

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself. Votes: 1

I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing. Votes: 1

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion. Votes: 1

I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like a writer than anything else. Votes: 1

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. Votes: 1

Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army, I was in fights. There was something about writing that was a way of experimenting with this emotion. Votes: 1

With 'Seven Deadly Sins,' there was a lot of personal stuff in there that I didn't even realize I'd been carrying around for awhile. And a lot of guilt involved, a lot of emotion, a lot of depression. Once I was done writing that book, I was able to really let go of that stuff. Votes: 1

I got down to business and started writing furiously. I wore my fingers down to a callous state writing with every Tom, Dick and Harry around the world, including a chap named Charlie who plays for a man named Bob, to wrestle my emotions and bring out the raw grit hiding in my tightly guarded sub-conscious. Votes: 1

While I was writing 'The Spare Room,' I thought, 'I'm going to look really bad in this book - there's no redeeming this kind of awful, ugly emotion', and I thought, 'I'm not going to change it. I'll call the character 'Helen' and admit to those feelings.' I think this is a reason why people write. Votes: 1

I love anything by Joan Didion. Incidentally, she was one of the local moms when I was growing up in Point Dume. She always reminded me a little bit of my mother, so I feel a great affinity. I love the precision of Didion's writing. There's a construction and a craftsmanship to her sentences that's imbued with so much emotion. Votes: 1

In high school, I went to a place called the Mountain School. It's on a farm in Vermont, and I read Emerson and Thoreau and ran around the woods. Now I go hiking with a bunch of my comedy buddies. We talk about our emotions. I also do a lot of writing on hikes, just to get the blood flowing and the ideas moving. Votes: 1

In the books I have written, I have created in my mind a universe. My kids say I have a village in my head and I live in that village, and it's true. When I start writing a book, characters from previous books reappear. All my emotions, my mind, my heart, my dreams, everything becomes connected with a new book, and nothing else really matters. Votes: 1

So much emotion goes into writing fiction. Votes: 0

So much emotion goes into writing fiction. Votes: 0

I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage Votes: 0

I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage. Votes: 0

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion. Votes: 0

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with emotion. Votes: 0

Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion... Votes: 0

I'm not the most emotionally attuned guy in the world. My wife says that me writing about emotion is like Gandhi writing about gluttony. Votes: 0

Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other. Votes: 0

Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in. Votes: 0

If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion. Votes: 0