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Quotes About Expression

I head out of the Castle van Epp, down to the Promenade. It's snowing. I take a seat high above the BQE, stare at Manhattan for a bit, and then I play. For hours. I play until my fingertips are raw. Until I rip a nail and bleed on the strings. Until my hands hurt so bad I forget my heart does.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
How could she explain to them what her swashbuckler clothes meant to her?... She saw herself - being braver and stronger than she'd ever thought she could be.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
There are reasons," she said. "If you knew… if I could tell you…" Her hands, resting on top of the table, knotted into fists. Her long blond hair, pale as moonlight, swirled around her shoulders. Her ice-blue eyes sought Serafina's. In them, Serafina could see a yearning to talk, to share what was troubling her.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Show Belle who you are, master. Who you really are. Show her your heart.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
I play until my fingers are blue and stiff from the cold, and then I keep on playing. Until I'm lost in the music. Until I am the music--notes and chords, the melody and harmony. It hurts, but it's okay because when I'm the music, I'm not me. Not sad. Not afraid. Not desperate. Not guilty.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Dad" I pleaded, "this is so [cuss word you never, ever say in front of your mother] ridiculous.
~ Jennifer Echols
He looked over at me. "Indigo," he said. "Cyan". He glanced at the road in front of him, glanced at me. He reached over and ran his fingers down one of the darkest strands in the back, where I'd used a little purple. "Violet.
~ Jennifer Echols
Art is the most effective form of communication.
~ Jennifer Echols
But Hunter did sneeze, and what I'd thought was his concern for me had actually been a presneeze expression.
~ Jennifer Echols
Talking about your feelings helps you let go of your anger. And it takes a lot of energy to be angry all the time.
~ Jennifer Echols
Taking his hand I said "Fank woo." "Hm " he laughed with his mouth closed.
~ Jennifer Echols
I feel like I've been through a lot in the past couple of years, But I've kept pretty stable. That's because I channel that emotion into performance. I can handle emotion as long as it's only a song. It works for me, and I don't want to change it. I don't have anything left for writing.
~ Jennifer Echols
How did we get to this place where we had to be tough all the time and never said how much we loved each other?
~ Jennifer Echols
And ever so faintly,I could hear Josh rapping to his posse's beat.I couldn't make out most of what he was saying, but I thought I caught the word prepubescent .
~ Jennifer Echols
You can draw!" I exclaimed. "Yeah," his voice echoed from the kitchen. "I mean really draw [...]" "I told you I would major in art, hypothetically." "Yeah, but I thought the bullshit you fed me about lifting up the human spirit was compensation for not being able to draw.
~ Jennifer Echols
If I'd been you and Manohar had said those things about my first story, I would have knocked his block off." All of this was said with a jovial smile on his cherubic face.
~ Jennifer Echols
What do you write in those forms?" I asked. "Nothing. I just do this to look threatening.
~ Jennifer Echols
and the question is, which one is really "you
~ Jennifer Egan
I haven't had trouble with writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, clichéd writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn't have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments. It seems writer's block is often a dislike of writing badly and waiting for writing better to happen.
~ Jennifer Egan
What I Suddenly Understand My job is to make people uncomfortable. + I will do it all my life. ---> My mother, Sasha Blake, is my first victim.
~ Jennifer Egan
I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly.
~ Jennifer Egan
They were not permitted to so much as knock upon the door to the room in which he thought and wrote about art, but ted hadn't found a way to keep them from prowling outside it, ghostly feral creatures drinking from a pond at moonlight, their bare feet digging in the carpet....
~ Jennifer Egan
You know the expression," Eddie said. " 'Don't write if you can talk, and don't talk if you can nod.' " Styles was delighted. "A mick said that.
~ Jennifer Egan