Quotes About Expression

A true quotation cannot be divorced from the character who uttered or scribbled it; it should say as much about the person quoted as about the particular subject referred to, and for this reason an anthology of quotations should be a kind of portrait gallery.

The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.

Discourse, it's good for the soul.... civil... or otherwise, which.... do YOU prefer??

to make it climb, make it rhyme. Within

Anything too stupid to be spoken," he asserted, "is sung.

By words one of us can give another the greatest happiness or bring about utter despair; by words the teacher imparts his knowledge to the student; by words the orator sweeps his audience with him and determines its judgments and decisions. Words call forth emotions and are universally the means by which we influence our fellow-creatures.

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

when real people without money assemble to express their dissatisfaction with all this, they're told the First Amendment doesn't apply.

I say nothing against friendship, for I have tasted the sweets of it, and I know nothing of love, having never myself experienced a touch of it, but I find that in the making of poetry love is the most useful of all the themes that a poet may play upon.

So much of what folks want in the world turns out to be just a thing they say. Words change the way you feel for a small time and that just about goes as far as it can go toward being a true thing.

The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

What is imagination? I don't believe in fiction. In my mind everything comes from a part of who a writer is.

Sometimes I wish that I could sing or dance or paint or compose symphonies or build cathedrals to express somehow what all of this means to me. I wish I were a priest or a robin or a child or a sunset.

Writing is hard enough. Writing can be doubly hard when one tries to write to some unseen, unknown crowd of folks in Peoria or any other spot on the planet.

A direct relationship exists between the caliber of the writing you read and the caliber of the writing you make.

Some days I am on the road. Some days I am reading, and some days I am copying quotes. Some days I am writing letters, and some days I am writing chapters. There are no days when I am not working on the craft. There are no days when I am not a writer

The goal of the actor is to internalize, to assimilate, and to integrate the accent so that it becomes simply the character's natural individual way of speaking. When

Sometimes, when I am reading, the way a person has phrased his truth is as important to me as the truth itself. The wording is like a powerful painting that I would like to put on the wall. I want to share the statement with other people, not just for its truth, but also because the way it is worded somehow has a special meaning for me.

Sometimes, when I am reading, the way a person has phrased his truth is as important to me as the truth itself.

Assertion, even self-assertion, does not invariably bespeak an urge to annihilate the opposition or to wield coercive power.

Interesting, I said - using a word I often use when students come out with an earnest banality - and left it at that.

Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all.

A good speech has a beginning, a middle and an end, the best example being, "I love you."