About Quote by Paul Bloom

If people ever look down upon you for crying for fictional characters, you should give them a gentle, pitying look and feel bad for…

— Cassandra Clare

If a reader comes across a story that makes them cry, you can be sure that the writer felt every single thing that makes…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

“Unlike uplifting light fiction, narrative nonfiction’s trammeled territory provides no safe room where an unnerved writer can banish their unpleasant memories. Narrative nonfiction must…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Since I had children, I cry all the time - I just had a little cry in 'Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.'

— Hugh Dennis

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

— Anonymous

“If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if your're writing…

— Shannon L. Alder

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

— Oscar Wilde

“When the body, washed and dressed, lay in the coffin on a table, everyone came to take leave of him and they all wept.…

— Leo Tolstoy

“There was supposed to be grief when someone died, tears and heartfelt eulogies, the cutting pain of loss. Instead, he felt…nothing. Just numbness, an…

— Piper Vaughn

“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

The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly absorbed by…

— George Steiner

“...I've been ripped off, lied to, slandered, gossiped about slapped, falsely accused, and had my truths not believed. I've had my heart broken, had…

— Jessica Page Morrell