That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs.
Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
I think a lot of audience members don't realize the part that they play in live theatre. The audience actually has a mood. Sometimes they're tired and bored, and we have to wake them up and engage them.
Music makes or breaks an atmosphere. It helps to create the mood and also is a very important aural cue; simply shut off the music when you want people to leave.
Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful.
The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of violently angry tensions, of desperate and overwhelming longings.
If I'm in a bad mood, or if I'm uncomfortable, it's probably what I'm wearing that's making me feel that way.
Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.
Just don't go to a place where everything is too expensive... it'll put your husband in a bad mood.
Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.
Years ago on my radio show, I used to say, 'I'm a conservative, but I'm not in a bad mood about it.' I've always believed that civility in heavy doses is essential in self-government.
Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.
Babies should be classified as an antidepressant. It's pretty hard to be in a bad mood around a 5-month-old baby.
If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
It was weird because I was pregnant, throughout that so it was weird being a pregnant witch. I was in a really bad mood but luckily, because I sleep with the director, he just sort of scheduled me so I only had to do it two nights.
When I'm in a bad mood, I don't listen.
I write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood.
I hate to work out. I get in a bad mood when I have to do it!