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86 Visceral quotes by 82 unique authors

I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant’s brilliant non-fiction about humankind’s tragically ambivalent relationship with the natural world. Now… — John Burnham Schwartz
I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another. One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next, visceral, ironic… — Janet Fitch
In talking to founder after founder; I've heard almost visceral reactions to working for companies, even very cool ones with great things to work on… — Maynard Webb
Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most… — Baz Luhrmann
Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God. — Joel Salatin
Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system. — Wolf Kahn
Love is visceral and real. Love is physical. It embraces all things. Love doesn't space you out or take you out of this world. — Frederick Lenz
Nudity and sex scenes are two completely different things. Nudity you can kind of get used to, but not when there is movement and relating… — Lucy Lawless
The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body, animal,… — Nicole Brossard
Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption. — Georg Baselitz
For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was conscious of continuing… — Alberto Manguel
When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion. — Brit Marling
To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction. — Louis C. K.
When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual… — Penn Jillette
My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen. — Penn Jillette
Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have so much bass; a lot of times, it's the… — Skrillex
What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has. — Len Wein
Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back… — Sarah Dessen
It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing--how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they aren't genuine, but… — Joyce Carol Oates
And I saw it didn't matter who had loved me or who I loved. I was alone. The black oily asphalt, the slick beauty of… — Dorianne Laux
Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full or choice, free to visit the stately pleasure domes, make love in the morning, sketch a… — Frances Mayes
Staring at her face, she began to fancy her outer layer had begun to melt away while she wasn't paying attention, and something -- some… — Laini Taylor
He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his friends, he didn't… — Julian Barnes
Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief. — Orson Scott Card
Alarmed, I realized what my visceral reaction implied: jealousy. Over a guy I barely knew, with whom I’d exchanged more saliva than sentences. — Tammara Webber

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