Marlon James Quotes

Complicated feelings are fertile soil for creative ideas.

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

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

Yes, I've got inwardness and tenderness, but I also get angry and vituperative, and you have to honour that as well.

I think that, as a writer, while it's your job to construct stories, you have to navigate your way through them with your heart.

I'm not actually as emotional as everybody thinks. The songs are super personal, but that's just one side of me, and I guess people just assume I'm some troubled guy who's constantly sad.

I don't think that I'm broken at all. I no longer think that I'm a mess. I just think I'm a deeply feeling person in a messy world.

Like most people, I find my own experiences - and my emotional responses to those experiences - fascinating and mysterious, even those that are a bit shaming and a little repellent.

But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.

I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people tick. Writing a story... 'The Giver' or any other... is simply an exploration of the nature of behavior: why people do what they do, how it affects others, how we change and grow, and what decisions we make along the way.

Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom.

Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.

I know amazing people in fashion who are anything but fake. They are very real and very sensitive. They are happy and sad. They are loyal friends.

Admiration is the emotion furthest from understanding. ~Sosuke Aizen

No one masters the heart.

Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.

Unfortunately, little darlings, there is no such thing as a simple love story.The most transitory puppy crush is complex to the extent of lying beyond the far reaches of the brain's understanding.

How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?

To be sorry and glad together is to be perceptive to the richness of life.

An amazing observation: it is precisely for feelings that one needs time, not for thought. ... Feelings, obviously, are more demanding than thought.

Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep.

A woman's best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies, rather than by her knowledge.

No person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another. We are all Face Dancers in our souls.

We're not all robots. There are emotions that creep in.