Gloria Votsis Quotes

I just think when you read something that's magnetic that pulls you into it or resonates with you, whatever that may be, that's always a positive thing. And you never know what that's going to be.

I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great, it's eliciting a response by proxy.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

It's so rare that you see a movie that you are genuinely moved by on a real level, and you relate to it, and you come out feeling uplifted.

'Firefly' was and always will be such a positive thing for me. I hold a lot of really good memories associated to that show.

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?

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

Book after book, I get hooked, every time the writer talks to me like a friend.

If you have written really well, people will swear that it happened to you.

The book that made me cry hardest was 'Stoner,' by John Williams.

Hopefully when you listen to a song, you can say, 'That's me,' or 'That's someone I know' - you relate to it in a way that's cathartic.

Music is a great catalyst for emotion because it gets to your core.

Music makes me cry.

My approach to selecting a film is very simple - it should touch my heart.

I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.

Music is first for me. How the music makes me feel, it's like energy. It has to match my life. What's happening around me or to me. That's where it comes from.

It's super dope when you connect with something personally.

One way I judge music is whether it compels me to listen to it.

I love happy-sounding music.

The most incredible part of seeing people embrace and recognize my music is experiencing the lives of people when they are powerfully affected, encouraged, and personally impacted.

Some songs just resonate with you.

My favorites are songs that I get an emotional charge from, whatever genre they're in.

I've gotten so many messages I could even get emotional thinking about it, but I've gotten so many messages from young kids all over the country that my story's resonated with them.

I think 'Bittersweet' is one of the best songs ever written. The idea of it just really spoke to me.

I don't really know what I'm ever looking for, it's kind of like whatever happens to resonate at the time with me.