Emotion Quote by Anonymous

For me, writing plays is far more an act of the mind than of the emotions. It's a very different kind of impulse than…

— Jim Grimsley

Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction.

— Diana Ossana

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.

— Andrew Sean Greer

All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not to say…

— George R. R. Martin

In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

People read fiction for emotion-not information

— Sinclair Lewis

“I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's…

— Flannery O'Connor

The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

— Anonymous

“An author has to fit into the skin of her characters, to imagine being trapped by unfortunate and sometimes violent circumstances she herself has…

— Loretta H. Marion

Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

— Arundhati Roy

“Fiction that fails to engage an audience with the emotional intricacies of viable characters will, for many in that audience, simply alienate them with…

— Hal Duncan