Clarity Quote by Charles Baxter

The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a…

— Anne McCaffrey

As a writer, I'm always mindful that not everyone is going to feel the same way I do about something, so my emotions are…

— Cher Lloyd

“Sentimentality, in all its forms, is the attempt to get some effect without providing due cause. (I take it for granted that the reader…

— John Gardner

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

— Ravi Subramanian

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried about not…

— John Ridley

“When a writer is able to experience the whole range of human emotions, from deep depressions to glorious highs, it creates a whole inventory…

— David Perry

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

— James Joyce

Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into…

— Hermann Hesse

If you're trying to convey a crucial emotional truth, you have to be in total control of the emotional pacing of the story, and…

— Kevin Keck

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

— Norman Mailer

There are a couple of writers I admired who were very good at giving the character's emotion without stating what that emotion was. Not…

— Donald E. Westlake