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In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact. -- Hal David
The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy. -- Enya
If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed. -- Jojo Moyes
I've evolved in my writing to tell a more emotional story - my publisher, Random House, has urged that. -- Alan Furst
I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time. -- Bret Easton Ellis
Writing is such a weird emotional thing. It's hard. If you sit down with a plan to write something, it's going to be harder. -- Lauren Miller
As much as writing is an emotional experience, it is a business as well. Coming from a business background, I treat it as such. -- Chevy Stevens
When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess. -- Tayari Jones
When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance. -- Oscar Hijuelos
You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to decide what to reveal. -- Diana Krall
I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication. -- Sylvester Stallone
TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories. -- Connie Nielsen
When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level. -- Ben Marcus
Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can access the emotional life of the character. -- Aimee Bender
When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character. -- Linus Roache
If we're really writing, we are exploring the unnamed emotional facets of the human heart. Not all emotions, not all states of mind have been named. Nor are all the names we have been given always accurate. -- Ron Carlson
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 love writing picture books and story books because of the exciting, visual life that artists and illustrators give to them. And most of all, I love writing novels because of the inner, emotional journeys that they take me on. Hopefully, the reader comes with me! -- Berlie Doherty
I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally, but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended. -- Christopher Darden
My acting has always been in the world of comedy, but in my writing, other than writing sketches, I really am drawn to the balance between comedy and drama. I like things that sort of toe that line of one minute you're in this emotional space and then all of the sudden something happens. -- Jim Rash
Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks! -- Rex Reed
I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal. -- Diana Krall
I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I'm really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff. -- Jane Espenson
Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime. -- Harry Elmer Barnes
Jed Diamond is, quite simply, one of the wisest men writing today on the topic of male emotional and physical health. -- Michael Gurian
I think that simply nudging yourself into unfamiliar settings - physical or emotional - can produce surprising results on the writing front. -- Ralph Keyes
While medicine creates material for writing, perhaps even more important is that it also creates a psychological and emotional need to write. -- Daniel Mason
The emotional findings, then, suggest that to gain the most benefit from writing about life's traumas, acknowledge the negative but celebrate the positive. -- James W. Pennebaker
In my experience, cutting back is the crucial act that allows the vitality, precision and emotional heart of a piece of writing to emerge. -- Pamela Erens
Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a crowd mentality. -- Nico Muhly
It's a fine line between writing something with genuine emotional impact and turning into little idiots feeling sorry for ourselves and playing stadium rock. -- Thom Yorke
I deal with emotional pain through therapy, writing, therapy in music. I think emotional pain is best dealt with when you use art to express it. -- Naturi Naughton
Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all day with a haggard look. -- Richard Yates

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