Author Quote by V.L. Dreyer

“The job of a writer is not to convey emotion but to invoke it.”

— Eric T. Benoit

“But what I care most about is when the reader is finished with my work they can say, I don't know the particulars, but…

— Michael Ramos

“As writers, we feel things deeper than other people, we hurt more, we love bigger, we cry harder and we smile wider. This is…

— H.D. Gordon

“A writer must write from the heart, that is the only way that for readers to see the passion of our work.”

— Cornelius D. Jones

“Never write anything that does not move you or give you pleasure. Emotion is then transferred from the writer to the reader.”

— Massimo Marino

“The easiest emotions for an author to evoke from readers are boredom and confusion.”

— Raul Ramos y Sanchez

“Writers are often given the gift of being spectacularly unhappy, so that they can record the full depth of feeling.”

— Grace Bridges

“I write about the emotional crises that we face in our lives. Readers tell me that they identify with my characters. They know them.…

— Barbara Delinsky

“When a writer is able to experience the whole range of human emotions, from deep depressions to glorious highs, it creates a whole inventory…

— David Perry

“The writer’s special talent is to empathize with people and imagine their lives. We know them as we write them.”

— Kay Kenyon

“Being a writer is an important job because we bring emotion and imagination into a world filled with endless, inane chatter.”

— Jennifer Probst

“I don’t just want to write a story. I want to pull the reader into my ink so they feel the cold of a…

— Lyn Gardner