Quotes About Expression

Nothing feels better than constructing a beautiful sentence.

Actors don't need a lot of talk beyond the first few sentences. They may say they don't draw on their own life, but all actors do.

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.

It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.

I know I have a problem with semi-colon abuse and have written page-long sentences. Nobody needs to be reading page-long sentences, at least not written by me.

Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.

Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.

Writing is looking for music between sentences.

It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.

People don't have to understand a language to understand the emotion and sentiment behind a song.

I am very sentimental, very emotional, but never in my writing; I am very tough.

For writers: don't hold back. Be weird. Be sentimental. Be melodramatic. Take the risk of being not-cool, not-hip.

I'm mostly known for writing electro and aggressive bangery house music. But before I started making electro, and while I was making electro, this sort of gushy, make-the-ravers-cry sort of sentimentality is so important to me.

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.

I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.

I've auditioned for roles that involved voice, but I don't like it. I feel like, I can't do this in front of you. It seems so separate - I don't share it with a lot of people. And I'm not into public performances.

I consider myself a showman, and I love magic, and I love art, and I love performance, and they're all separate.

I started to like my voice - the sound of it. So then I started to listen to it as something separate. To me, it sounded good that way as well.

I speak English. I dream in it. I cannot separate my English from my Shona; I see the world with those two languages.

I have never been able to separate - nor have I wanted to - my personal love and desire for truth, passion, and understanding from my lyrics.

It might seem difficult to separate my artist and my writing career, but for me, it's just music.

I'm trying to be an activist, and I think of that as separate from my work as an artist. But it isn't.