Emotion Quote by Anne Lamott

“You must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Tell…

— Anne Lamott

“Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don’t worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about being absent…

— Anne Lamott

You just have to make sure you're writing about something that's true. It has to be honest and it has to have a real…

— Teddy Thompson

With writing, I think you have to be honest with yourself. I have a certain kind of writing; that is, I like to really…

— Sylvester Stallone

Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary…

— Anne Lamott

“The secret of being a writer: not to expect others to value what you've done as you value it. Not to expect anyone else…

— Joyce Carol Oates

It's always difficult to write honestly of one's deepest feelings, particularly without the protective veil of fiction. But the more difficult, the more rewarding…

— Alix Kates Shulman

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings.

— Judy Collins

There is a big part of me that has a writer's sensibility. And so that's how I think. That's how I pursue truth. That's…

— Barack Obama

Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as…

— Anne Lamott

In a way, there's nothing new under the sun, so anything you write about has been written about by other people. All you can…

— Jesse Andrews

Most writers write from their own experiences. That is where the honesty and intensity of emotions come from.

— Ravi Subramanian