Dispassionate Quote by Paul Di Filippo

From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or…

— Peter Straub

In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth.

— Theresa Breslin

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

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

— Diana Ossana

Almost every story has a romantic angle to it.

— Fawad Khan

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

— Joyce Cary

The last thing I want is that sense of artifice - rather I want the reader drawn into the story and lost in it…

— Steve Erickson

Remember, if you don't feel passionate about the characters and subject of your story, your readers won't either.

— Meg Cabot

“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

If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and are unable…

— Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien

You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.

— Aleksandar Hemon