Analysis Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Vision, emotion, sincerity, passion and creativity. Without these attributes a writer has only his pen with which to speak to his audience”

— Bill Knight English Writer Copywriter Cynic

The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity.

— Thane Rosenbaum

“A body of work, therefore, reveals the intellectual and emotional progress of the writer, and is a map of his soul. It's both terrifying…

— Dean Koontz

Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies…

— Paul Bourget

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

— Kay Kenyon

“The writer of fiction is not a scholar but an artist impacted emotionally by characters from life, who then strives to present these in…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“...the representation of human character and personality remains always the supreme literary value, whether in drama, lyric or narrative. I am naive enough to…

— Harold Bloom

A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of…

— Carolyn See

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

“To be a decent writer you must have both empathy and imagination. While these attributes aid your art, they can plague your soul. You…

— M.J. Rose

“From my recent blog tour interview: I recently spent time updating my Goodreads page to include the names of authors whose works inspire me,…

— Barbara James

You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.

— Paul Haggis