Quotes About Expression

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.

But what is it all about, what am I trying to do, is there a message? Nobody knows, and I certainly don't. If one could answer these questions in any other way than by writing what one has written, then there would be no point in writing at all.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad', and if you're planning on writing that's probably a good thing. But if you are planning on writing and they haven't fucked you up, well, you've got nothing to go on, so then they've fucked you up good and proper.

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.

I cannot heave my heart into my mouth, is a sentiment I can readily endorse. Her predicament is mine.

She found that after she had written something down, she was happy. Happy as if she had been reading. And it came to her again that did not want to simply be a reader. A reader was next door to being a spectator where as when she was writing she was doing. And doing was her duty.

How old does one have to be still to say tits?

You don't put your life into your books. You find it there.

Larkin says that they fuck you up, your mum and dad. And if you end up writing, then that's fine because if they have, then you've got something to write about. But if they haven't fucked you up, you don't have anything to write about, so then they've fucked you up good and proper.

If reading softens one up, writing does the reverse. You have to be tough, do you not?

Kyetäkseen kirjoittamaan ihmisen on oltava sitkeä.

Love and a cough cannot be hidden.

You've got to sing like you don't need the money Love like you'll never get hurt Dance like there's nobody watching It's got to come from the heart if you want it to work

There are seven reasons people go to work: (1) Money; (2) Passionate self-expression; (3) Rewarding relationships; (4) Service to improve others' lives; (5) Egoic achievement, competitive victory, or status; (6) Fear, guilt, obligation, rote habit, or debt to tradition; and (7) Avoidance of boredom or escape from a more unpleasant situation. We might boil this list down to two basic motivations: fear-based lack and joy-based expression.

Honesty: When your outer expression matches your inner belief. Truth: When your inner belief matches reality.

Most people who are paid to use a tool feel constrained not to complain about that tool, but it doesn't stop them from feeling frustrated and unhappy about it.

The poetry, you see, was when he moved. -- Dream Done Green

The expression on her face was one the trooper would never forget: it was the look of someone still alive who realizes she's already dead

I've never known a storyteller who was unhappy when telling stories.

This way and stop looking so positive: optimism doesn't fit a prisoner's profile. Poe obediently lowered his head and adopted as morose an expression as possible.

Long-established totalitarian governments fear any kind of free expression. A sculpture can be a manifesto, a manuscripted adventure can double as a cry for rebellion.

You smile too much, Rey.

The central idea in this book is that highly aroused, negative emotion—dysregulated emotion—is the core problem for high-conflict couples and that there are specific skills partners can learn to manage their emotions effectively, which in turn makes effective communication (accurate expression followed by understanding and validation) possible.

How do you explain to someone else why a thing matters to you if it doesn't matter to them? How can you put into words how a book slips inside of you and becomes a part of you so much that your life feels empty without it?