Quotes about Emotional Resonance

Movies, as I grew up loving them, were always about something.

I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.

Lyrics are really important for me.

I've found lyrics in songs that always center me.

For me, music is a magical life force that has the ability to make me cry, pick me up, and take me back in time.

If your work isn't mission-driven or emotionally resonant to you, it will be very hard to maintain passion and focus over a long period of time, which is critical in entrepreneurship.

I'm just interested in things that move me and make me think, make me laugh.

I like making movies that people feel inspired by, a film that they will think about a few days after seeing it, and not entertainment that is completely forgettable the moment you walk out of the theater.

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind.

I would never choose a subject for what it means to me. I choose a subject and then what I feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold.

Sarà che le emozioni hanno un odore, o un sapore; sarà che le trasmettiamo inconsapevolmente inviando vibrazioni nell'aria.

Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of leaving, hesitations. Books leave certain sounds, a certain pacing; mostly they leave the elusive, which is all the story. They leave much more than the words.

It is not the job of writers to lift our spirits. Books simply do what they do. They sometimes confirm the capricious drama of a childhood living room. When you think that you are in the grace of a dance you come upon something hard. ?—A Map to the Door of No Return - Dionne Brand

I leaned against the carved banisters and listened to the music and felt quite different from any way I have ever felt before -- softer, very beautiful and as if a great many men were in love with me and I might very easily be in love with them.

When readers feel strongly, their hearts are open. Your stories can not only reach them for a moment, but they can change them forever. I don't care about what you write, how you write it, your choices in publishing, or what you want out of your career. What I want is to feel deeply as I read your work. I want to feel connected to you and your characters in the way I do to the most memorable classics and the most stunning new titles I'll read this year.

What makes them classics? Artful storytelling, sure, but beyond the storytelling, classics have enduring appeal mostly because we remember the experiences we had while reading them; we remember not the art but the impact. When

Good Story Loves Contrast

At our workshops, I teach that in a story there must always be pain and conflict, and yet when we talk about painful things in our marketing it can feel a little heavy. But don't be tricked into telling a boring story.

But though it was the most resonant and real-seeming thing that had happened in a long time, I didn't want to spoil it by talking about it...

overly sensitive to the souls of rooms and objects, the emanations

And isn't the whole point of things-beautiful things-that they connect you to some larger beauty

It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.

The only truth is music.

She knew it happened, but now that it had happened and to people near her, she couldn't even absorb it enough to fear it thoroughly.