Ross Gay Quotes

'Beloved' by Toni Morrison. I think I read it first in college and have read it every few years since. The language itself is remarkable. I don't know that I've read a book that explains America so well.

For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.

I started crying 20 seconds into the movie and didn't stop till it was over.

I read the last Harry Potter, and I cried for at least the last 70 pages. Awful! I was curled into a ball and I just kept sobbing. It was embarrassing. I was loud, and I just kept wiping tears away so I could see the page.

I don't cry too often reading books, but I did reading Francisco Goldman's autobiographical novel, 'Say Her Name.'

When I was in grad school, I had to admit I hadn't read Toni Morrison. My teacher, the novelist Colum McCann, said I had to. I read 'Beloved' and 'Song of Solomon.' Pretty incredible.

I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

Generally my favorite remarks always come from my readers. I've had people say my books made them laugh, or cry, or that it frightened them late at night.

I usually don't cry at movies, although I will get sad. I'm okay with it, though. It's good to make people cry.

For me, music is a magical life force that has the ability to make me cry, pick me up, and take me back in time.

When I saw the scene in 'Close Encounters,' and Richard Dreyfuss's son is screaming at him - that's a heartbreaking scene. And I remember being devastated by 'E.T.' Or when E.T. started to get sick. That broke me up a little bit.

Great advertising triggers an emotion in you. It has purpose. It touches a nerve, and that provokes a reaction.

I have always enjoyed watching my songs make people cry.

Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can.

Because sometimes listening to something will connect to a feeling, it will allow you to emote subconsciously, and you don't even understand why you're in it.

The first element that I connected with was the emotion. Sorry, that's how it goes.

I believe with all my heart in delivering on my contract with my readers. They've got plenty of other things to do, so I had better give them a reason to turn every one of these 550 pages. This is my promise: I solemnly swear I'll make you laugh out loud at least once, cry a little in private, and burn whatever you left on the stove.

You need to have a reader's sympathy in order to accomplish anything. It's like at a reading, I find it's better to read something funny than to read something tragic. It just goes over better because you have a finite amount of time with somebody. Of course, in a book, you have a lot of time. But you still do want to make a certain impression right when you begin.

I'm constantly on the brink of tears in conversation about things that happen to people.

Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.

Some people could say, "I'd like something that's super dramatic and miserable and made me cry and made me sad forever" but that's not my taste.

Music just affects people's feelings. It brings out emotions in you and makes you happy and sad.

It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.

There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood.