Writing Emotions Quotes

But I don't write so much now, because they're too painful.

I can't help slightly falling in love with every character I write about. And I quite like writing about people who are vilified.

If I'm writing a furiously angry scene, I have to consciously snap out of it when I shut down the computer, or I find myself growling at my family.

A woman who writes feels too much.

The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.

When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.

I think it's harder to write about joy than pain, isn't it?

Taking the higher ground can be difficult, so it really helps when you can write those feelings into a song.

I don't talk about feelings, but I write a lot about feelings. Reading, that's feminine; writing, that's feminine. It is insane - it's really insane - but it still is in me.

It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.

I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.

Music is just where I sort of write my emotions down.

A lot of readers ask me, "Do you ever get emotional while writing the book?" or "Did you cry when you killed this character?" And the truth is, no, I didn't. That's not really the way I approach it. I don't get emotional while writing, but then there are plenty of other authors who do.

Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.

Every writer has characters that they become attached to and that they feel very strongly about.

There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they’d burn me at the stake for feeling so good, so full, so much intense pleasure.