Blood Quote by Red Haircrow

When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity…

— Linus Roache

When you're writing, I think a big part of writing comes out of an attempt to understand yourself. You're dealing with emotions and thoughts…

— Sheila Heti

My characters often start out with a loss of some sort, usually a loss of emotion or purpose or hope. What I do in…

— Vera Nazarian

I'm an incredibly emotional person, but I always feel bad about that. The work is therapy... I need to emote wildly while I write.…

— Matthew Quick

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

— Isabel Allende

I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.

— George R. R. Martin

My work is very dear to me, and certainly I have had all the emotional highs and lows that go with trying to get…

— Daniel Handler

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

— James Broughton

Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my own. I always begin with…

— S. E. Hinton

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

— Oscar Wilde

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

— Bret Easton Ellis

Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can access the…

— Aimee Bender