Emotional Quote by Tayari Jones

Each day I feel a little differently; some times I try to write something that's fictitious and then there's other times where I try…

— Josh Turner

When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back…

— Charlie Kaufman

“If you read a story that really involves you, your body will tell you that you are living through the experience. You will recognize…

— Joseph Gold

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap,…

— Zoe Kazan

You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just depict life…

— Ernest Hemingway

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people…

— Nick Earls

I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when…

— Erin Morgenstern

I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make…

— Ernest Hemingway

A lot of times, real life is more surreal than writing.

— Jesmyn Ward

To a certain extent that happens with all kinds of successful writers and artists and celebrities, but there is also something about the form…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and…

— Helen Fielding

You write something and there’s no reality to it. You can’t inject it with any kind of reality. You have to be patient and…

— Deborah Eisenberg