Quotes about Emotional Resonance

El heroísmo ajeno siempre conmueve una barbaridad.

There are only two types of people. Those who dance with their soul and others who move to the beats. I am not sure what rest of the world does!

I have those songs as well. It depends on what I'm going through in my life but I'm a huge fan of Bjork. Sometimes I get so emotional because she's so amazing.

CULTURE i must confess that waltzes do not move me. i have no sympathy for symphonies. i guess i hummed the Blues too early, and spent too many midnights out wailing to the rain.

i love music more than food!!!!!!!!!!

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.

Music can reach depths words can't.

It's only when the heart that we get the response that the heart of others can give.

The best comedians and the best rappers can make you laugh and can make you cry... I believe I've been blessed with that gift to make you do just that.

Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.

When you listen to Ray Charles, there's never any doubt whose voice that is.

The novels that have fascinated me most are the ones that have reached me less through the channels of the intellect or reason than bewitched me.

I need to get as deep as I can into my own heart to really make people connect and react to the music as passionate as possible.

I'd rather create something that gives people a very strong reaction than create a show that someone looks at and says, 'Hmm. Fine.'

If after you read something, you connect with it, you want to do it.

How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.

To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

Choosing the narrator for a first-person story like 'Downriver' is a crucial decision because the voice has to be one the reader wants to listen to, and the voice has to be a match for the emotion you want the story to carry.

I like to be happy when I'm writing. If not, then how will the reader manage?

Not to make him blush, but any story illustrated by Mike Mignola does things that prose alone can't accomplish. The illustrations create mood and atmosphere, drawing the reader more deeply into the story than words could do on their own.

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?

I think the key is to give the reader characters they not only care about, but identify with, and to never take away all hope.

Listening to classical music is like reading philosophy books. Not everybody has to do it.

I think 'Beasts of No Nation' is a novel that hopefully will affect each person who reads it in a different way.