Robert Collier Quotes

A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it.

There are some people who have been reading me for years, and they keep saying kind things about the writing. That's what you're writing for, to get people to respond to it.

I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both, and for that to become a part of them and work into their own lives.

When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.

Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It's when a scene works emotionally and it's cool and clever, then it's great. That's what you want.

One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched.

If a script has that affect on me during a reading, then it is definitely a film I want to be part of.

The public is composed of numerous groups whose cry to us writers is: 'Comfort me.' 'Amuse me.' 'Touch my sympathies.' 'Make me sad.' 'Make me dream.' 'Make me laugh.' 'Make me shiver.' 'Make me weep.' 'Make me think.'

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.

The movie itself was very interesting, but I didn't think it was very good because I didn't really feel different when it was over.

Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why are they angry? Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head—even if in the end you conclude that someone else's head is not a place you'd really like to be.

I want people to be moved, to feel called to action. That's what I want to do.

I love getting fan mail. Often, as a writer, you never know what your readers think of a book... you get critical reviews and sales figures, but none of that is the same as knowing you've made a person stay up all night reading, or helped them have a good cry, or really touched their life.

In the finished article, the only thing that is important is whether it moves you or not. There is nothing else that is important at all.

I would far rather add a character who generates strong feelings than someone who just kind of floats along, generating medium-warmth smiles of gentle affirmation.

The difference between a good song and a great song is a good song is one that you know, you'll put on in your car or you'll dance to it. But I think a great song you'll cry to it, or you get chills. I think a great song says how you feel better than you could.

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

People are buying only one thing from you: the way the engagement (hiring you, working with you, dating you, using your product or service, learning from you) makes them feel.

I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself.

The fact that music can induce Goosebumps draw a tear inspire and connect is one of my favorite parts of being human

I don't think there is anybody who's watching television right now who wants to see something because it looks good rather than feel something because it feels right or familiar or new or whatever.

Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.

There is a little bit of a head vs. heart kind of battle that happens sometimes with the song. There's the goose bump thing, where the melody or whatever it is just gets you and you don't know why. Sometimes, it's in a genre that you didn't think you liked and, all of a sudden, the song hits you and you just say, wow, I feel the hairs on the back of my neck. I love this song.

Music and movie scripts are books. You want to be literally moved and that's the sort of things I look for.