Emotional Quote by Pema Chodron

Trauma leads to drama.

— Carol Coopersmith

Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike…

— Leigh Brackett

You just have to learn to get really good at choosing your moments and making sure that your story isn't overwhelmed by the effects,…

— J.H. Wyman

The more extreme the story, the more successful it becomes. Emotions on high, empathy engaged, we become primed to help.

— Maria Konnikova

I'm not much of a plotter. I start off with an inciting incident, and in classic crime fiction what happens is that all the…

— Denise Mina

It's a challenge to express real life in dramatic terms. In an entirely "made-up" story, you are sometimes overwhelmed by the infinite possibilities.

— Daniel Clowes

The excruciating moments of drama are when people are allowed to show or say what they feel.

— Olivia Williams

“Producers increasingly insert overblown, hyper-emotional scenes even when the underlying conflict could be portrayed with calm or rational dialogue. The intent is not to…

— E. Ravago

We want to see drama told in a cathartic way, with power, with emotion where you empathize and then you're frightened. All those feelings…

— Danny Boyle

Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You…

— Jessica Stern

The more negative emotion there is in a story, the heavier and more impenetrable it becomes

— Eckhart Tolle

There's a certain joy in taking a dramatic narrative and then adding that element of horror to it.

— Lauren Ashley Carter