Dorothy parker

It means we need to be the master of crafting our sentences so that the reader can see and feel the emotion, not just be told. Let's take this Parker quote. Assume Julie, a woman in your story, decides to leave San Francisco to take a job in New York City. This is an important career move. Her male friend wants her to stay but thinks, Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away. Instead of begging her to stay and demanding that she turn down the job, he hugs her and says he knows this is a big opportunity for her and that he'll see what he can do to visit as often as possible. He thoughts and his actions, assuming the previous part of the story has conveyed their love for each other, show the reader his emotional state.