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A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments. -- Joyce Cary
Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth. -- David Levithan
In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth. -- Theresa Breslin
The way I navigate scenes is through what I perceive to be the emotional truth of the character: what he wants from moment to moment. -- Ben Bass
I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them. -- Alice Hoffman
As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance. -- Jesse Eisenberg
You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it. -- Julianne Moore
I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth. -- Carly Simon
I don't think there's any topic a writer should feel afraid of tackling just because it has already been discussed. If you feel you have a fresh perspective and an understanding of a certain emotional truth, it's always worth writing. -- Jami Attenberg
I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand people read, or just privileged people read. I want to write a book whose emotional truth people can understand. For me, that's what it's about. -- Ann Hood
When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across. -- Damien Chazelle
Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go out far on a literary limb with completely implausible things that relied completely on voice and humor. And what saved me is realizing that I couldn't do that very well. -- Rob Thomas
Emotional access to the truth is the indispensable precondition of healing. -- Alice Miller
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity. -- George Orwell
It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves. -- Lauryn Hill
Don't come to church for an emotional experience. Come to church for the truth. -- Robert Godfrey
The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty. -- Gail Caldwell
Worship is not just an emotional exercise but a response of the heart built on truth about God. -- Erwin W. Lutzer
What you hope, what you're trusting the filmmaker to do, is to capture the emotional truth of the situation. -- Joe Berlinger
When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink. -- Chogyam Trungpa
Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime. -- Harry Elmer Barnes
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Telling the truth to yourself and someone you can trust are great ways to help elevate your whole emotional quality. -- Jewel
You'll very rarely find that you can enhance a performance to give it a real emotional centre and truth... after the fact. -- Andy Serkis
The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember. -- Muriel Rukeyser
Every lie a person tells is an emotional dead end road that puts weight on the heart. Satisfaction is always in the truth. -- Ron Baratono
I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them -- Alice Hoffman
My emotional investment is in finding truth. If string theory is wrong, I'd like to have known that yesterday. But if we can show it today or tomorrow, fantastic. -- Brian Greene
Any documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never the actual literal truth of an event. -- Joe Berlinger
I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end. -- Jami Attenberg

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