In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth. — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The way I navigate scenes is through what I perceive to be the emotional truth of the character: what he wants from… — Ben Bass Copy Share Image
What you hope, what you're trusting the filmmaker to do, is to capture the emotional truth of the situation. — Joe Berlinger Copy Share Image
A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments. — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to sound emotional. But truth is, I'm just used to being left behind. It's like people think I don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Nook people confuse emotional truth with other varieties of truth. They are a composite of the last person who complimented them and… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
Emotional truth is the reward of digging deeply enough to find the truth about how one really feels, but in order to… — Philip Schultz Copy Share Image
I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
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… — Joe Berlinger Copy Share Image
I haven't written a whole lot of nonfiction, but what I have written leads me to believe that it's an entirely different… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
If you're trying to convey a crucial emotional truth, you have to be in total control of the emotional pacing of the… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Of all people, children are the ones that really understand when there's a truth there for them - an emotional truth. The… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
In fact, I always assumed that most everything I read was true, to one degree or another. I couldn't articulate this fact… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
“The failure of art is, as we have said, not a complete failure. Substantial truth is revealed to us, we are not… — R. G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“I don't expect to have a fully verified story of how Jo's disorder developed, but I don't think that historical accuracy is… — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“I haven’t been disingenuous in what I’ve said describing my perception of “truth” and “reality.” Certainly, I understand what is generally meant… — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image
I guess if you try to write with honesty and emotional truth, then that will resonate no matter what the age of… — Ol Parker Copy Share Image
I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
Without sounding pretentious, if you get the emotional truth right, then you're set. Then the funny stuff you can pile on as… — Brett Goldstein Copy Share Image
I'm not that interested in recreating reality. I'm interested in recreating an emotional truth. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
When you look at the history of slavery in the United States, and you see the impact that 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' had,… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
One thing we can probably agree on is that the truth, however we define it, is often hard to tell. It can… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
“There was, he thought, an emotional truth here somewhere, and he could see now that his role-playing had a previously unsuspected artistic… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
