I always have strong feelings when I'm writing a book. Sometimes when I'm writing a book, I even cry when I'm writing. Once I read a quotation that I thought was very true for me, which is: "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
Something mystical happens to every writer who goes to the Masters for the first time, some sort of emotional experience that results in a search party having to be sent out to recover his typewriter from a clump of azaleas.
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
Every writer must have a chip of ice in his heart.
When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.
Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know.
