Quote by Sianne Ngai

“In fact, because tone is never entirely reducible to a reader’s emotional response to a text or reducible to the text’s internal representations of…

— Sianne Ngai

When we read a literary work (or, in some instances, listen to music) our imagination is stimulated, we feel various emotions, and we arrive…

— Philip Kitcher

“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in…

— Harold Bloom

“If fast-paced entertainment is not among the pleasures generally offered by the literary novel, other pleasure often abound: a richness of language, a heart-breaking…

— Joshua Henkin

“these audible demonstrations that whether the feeling is vested in abstract systems or in personal relationships, the world of the novel’s story runs on…

— Sianne Ngai

Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.

— Steven Heighton

“writing, is not just poring the words. but how to creates feel's voice with a soul, is a paramount.”

— ikke achmad

“There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of…

— Henry James

“Think of literary fiction as a meal with intricate scents, flavors, and textures that you can’t recognize unless you chew with your eyes closed.”

— Jessica Bell

Great literature rattles the mind and makes the body sing. It's an unmistakable, electric feeling, and too rare. That is what I want.

— C.E. Morgan

Novels can fill in the spaces about what that emotional resonance is.

— Quiara Alegria Hudes