Quotes About Expression

Make something beautiful of your life.

L]iterature is always badly served when an author's artistic insight yields place to stereotype and malice. -Home and Exile

music has always been a celebration of the ineradicability of life.

They shouldn't leave things out. They just shouldn't. They have to paint it all, the whole thing, and they shouldn't be afraid of that. If they hold us tight enough, so tight we know they love us, it won't matter what they say. Their love will get us through it.

Wine grapes are as sensitive to assaults as authors.

We pursued the muses, instead of the mirrors.

Art is a way of expanding our resonances, civilization our way of resonating to those expansions

J.-P. Quélin: 'The voluptuous cruelty of filling pages is what kills us.

The millions of words that would flow from his pen over the remainder of his life came in a handwriting that raced across the page in bold, forward-slanting lines, flattened by speed, as if they had no time to spare in reaching their destination.

We should be eternally vigilant against the attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

The story's what matters; spelling's overrated.

Every criminal would be an artist if he had the talent, and every artist would become a criminal if he had the guts.

Isn't that why all writers write? To inspire their readers?

Maybe authors shouldn't write more than one or two books. Maybe you just keep writing the same book over and over anyway.

Jokes were a good way to talk about something while acting like you weren't really talking about it.

The flattening of language is a flattening of meaning. Language which is not taut with a sense of its own significance, which is apologetic in its desire to be acceptable to a modern consciousness, language in other words which submits to its audience, rather than instructing, informing, moving, challenging and even entertaining them, is no longer a language which can carry the freight the Bible requires. It has, in short, lost all authority.

Sometimes looking at the fulmar's gaping, mouth-opening, mutually frenzied, head-bobbing, nibbling, shout-laughing version of 'I love you/I hate you', which can begin calmly enough but then builds to a tumultuous, guffawing, totalizing climax, I have thought that only in the ecstatic moments of life can we come near to knowing the reality of a bird's mind.

The Odyssey is constantly free and constantly inventive.

The Boov frowned. 'Now you sound like sheep.

Mark Twain said the difference between the right word and the almost right word is like the difference between lightning and the lightning bug, and people think he was good, right ? Didn't write any decent characters, as far as I can tell, but otherwise fine.

The Boov are having seven magnificent genders. There is boy, girl, boygirl, girlboy, boyboy, boyboygirl, and boyboyboyboy." I

MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW

Why did you attack some girl's boots? J.Lo looked incredulous. She is still mad about this? he huffed. I TOLD her-I THOUGHT they were ANKLEwolves. Okay, whatever. I- Why elsenow would a person wear fur with shortpants? It makes no sense!

So I sang the first Italian song that came into my head, which turned out to be "Volare." I'm sure I need not mention at this point that I am a rock star, and it sounded fantastic. J.Lo