Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Quotes

It's counterproductive. The problem with sentimentality is that it kills the emotion.

I'm a little hesitant to make my characters sentimental or to risk having the work labeled sentimental. It's something that I resist as a reader, and I don't resist it in life. I'm not an unmoved person by any stretch, but I think I don't want, I guess, to indulge those kinds of things sometimes in fiction. I can't tell you why exactly.

There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

In film, it's very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard sentimentality as emotion. It is not. Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy?

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

Sentimentality is a false sense of self.

Sentimental is not bad, but it's probably the most likely to go awry. It's the hardest to do and not have it end up being 'Forrest Gump' or something. Maudlin - I just don't want it to be maudlin.

I don't want to sing, you know: 'oh yeah, I love you baby, you love me too.'

The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious.

Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.

There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition.

beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.

I'm a sap, I'll cry at anything. But I don't cry when I feel manipulated, or when there's a music cue telling me to.

We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up elicits an emotional response that the story itself very well may not earn. Energy generated by the fiction itself is likely to produce more light.

I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

A lot of times, it gets weird when some guy is playing your dad. It feels weird to you. It feels like they're forcing sentiment. It's disgusting.

Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.