Action Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.”

— Ernest Hemingway

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly.

— Stephen King

“Isn't the writing of good prose an emotional excitement?" "Yes, of course it is. At least, when you get the thing dead right and…

— Dorothy Sayers

The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects,…

— T. S. Eliot

When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after…

— Taiye Selasi

There's always that moment when you realize what it's going to be. You might have an overarching theme and you need to fill in…

— Rosanne Cash

The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and…

— Dino De Laurentiis

It's fun to figure out a way to make something happen that will get the reader involved on a visceral level. When written well,…

— Nick Petrie

“I’ve never thought of writing as the mere arrangement of words on the page but the attempted embodiment of a vision; a complex of…

— Joyce Carol Oates

When I write, I work off of a theme, an emotion, a narrative - thinking of it and then expounding on it.

— Chance The Rapper

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better,…

— Tom Stoppard

In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs.

— H. P. Lovecraft