Quotes About Expression

Since antisemitism affects Jews, some readers may be inclined to think that only Jews should be concerned. That would be a mistake. Jews, as the intended target of the antisemite, may indeed be more sensitive to it. Such is the case with any expression of particular hatred and prejudice.

fought to defend myself, to preserve my belief in freedom of expression, and to defeat a man who lied about history and expressed deeply contemptuous views of Jews and other minorities.

He wasn't moved by the profanity-laced diatribe, and he saw no reason to reply in kind. He himself didn't cuss, his older brother Noah having told them time and time again that a man who needed to punctuate his point with obscenities really didn't have a point to make.

Colour expresses something in itself. -Vincent Van Gogh

our cells contain an epigenome that tells genes to switch on or off.

Be sure to enjoy language, experiment with ways of talking, be exuberant even when you don't feel like it because language can make your world a better place to live.

She was not a poet. She was a poem.

To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL.

My problem is that I want to smoke the cigar and for someone else to light it. I want to blow out smoke. Like a volcano. Like a monster. I want to fume. I do not want to be the girl whose job it is to wail in a high-pitched voice at funerals.

It's hard to write and be open and let things in when life is tough, but to keep everything out means there's nothing to work with.

To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life. But I had nowhere to write.

It is not enough to feel love. More important is how we express love.

Mitt problem är att jag vill röka cigarren själv och att någon annan ska tända den åt mig. Jag vill blåsa ut röken. Som en vulkan. Som ett monster. Jag vill att det ska ryka om mig. Jag vill inte vara flickan vars jobb det är att jämra sig me gäll röst på begravningar.

It is a disappointment to me to spawn a child who feels so deeply. I would like to refute the idea that to feel somehow makes you a better person.

I felt at ease with myself, which must have meant that she did not regard me as strange and so I had no reason to imitate someone who was less strange and had been saved from doing the chameleon thing.

A female writer cannot afford to feel her life too clearly. If she does, she will write in a rage when she should write calmly.

To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life.

She was not a poet. She was a poem. She was about to snap in half. He thought his own poetry had made her la la la la love him. It was unbearable.

My words were smaller than my feelings at that moment. I had spent my life finding diplomatic words. Am I a diplomat then? Isn't it hard enough to play Beethoven

Fiction is a wonderful home for the reach of the mind.

Tears fall from his eyes and arrange themselves on his cheek like Man Ray tears.

Can we accept that language is sacred and scared and it's scarred as well, because that's how we all are?

Too much of oneself can be projected into the silence

She is color, waiting to be mixed; a painting, ready to be brushed into life. She is a moment, waiting to be fixed forever under a shiny varnish.