Marie Corelli Quotes

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about being absent or fraudulent.

The poet should touch our heart by showing his own

In general, my rule is find out where your heart is, then speak from the heart. People know the difference between that and something scripted.

I write with all my heart

Weirdly enough, I don't like to pretend. I try to use things in me, and translate them into the situation and the characters, so it always needs to run through my own veins.

The most powerful speaking you can do is the speaking that comes from your heart and your love.

Dali Lama said, 'when you open the heart of the person with humor, you can tell him the most truth. But if you tell him truth without humor, the heart closes.'

The kind of sermon which is likely to break the hearer's heart is that which first has broken the preacher's heart, and the sermon which is likely to reach the heart of the hearer is the one which has come straight from the heart of the preacher.

My ultimate goal is to try to be real. It just so happens that I'm usually more happy than sad when I'm writing. And in general I think that life is pretty great, and it's cool to be here, so that comes through in my music. I don't have a dismal outlook, but I don't aim to make positive music. It's just what I am.

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.

Even when I do commercials, I try to tell a story about the product. With music, I try to tell the story of the person's struggle for success. And I believe every word I say. I never read anything on the air I don't believe in. I think people sense that about me, and they respond to it.

I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

Write about what you care about. If you do that, you're probably going to do your best writing, reach off the page and touch the reader. How are you going to make the reader care if you don't care yourself?

If you sing honestly and sincerely to kids, they will respond with all their hearts.

You never write down to the people - you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way.

As a fan, I connect with realness. Whether it's strong or vulnerable, if it's real, I can connect with it.

Nas is an artist who writes from his heart.

The tongue should express what is in the heart.

I've been saying it at all our Senate Democratic retreats we need to speak to the heart, not in a manipulative way, not in a way that brings forth everybody's fears and resentments, but truly to speak to the heart so that people know that we're actually on their side.

Whenever you try to say something in a sincere way, it gets communicated no matter what the genre.

When you do something that's going to speak to people, it's going to be because you're really allowing all of yourself to the table in an accepting way.

If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.

Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.