Quotes About Expression

All art is only done by the individual. The individual is all you ever have and all schools only serve to classify their members as failures.

Yes Tatie, and you and Chink always talking about how to make things true, writing them, and put them rightly and not describe. I remember everything. Sometimes he was right and sometimes you were right. I remember the lights and textures and the shapes you argued about.

Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

The biggest boy was long and dark with Thomas Hudson's neck and shoulders and the long swimmer's legs and big feet. He had a rather Indian face and was a happy boy although in repose his face looked almost tragic.

The hardest thing in the world to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings.

I learned to understand Cézanne much better and to see truly how he made landscapes when I was hungry. I used to wonder if he were hungry too when he painted; but I thought possibly it was only that he had forgotten to eat.

This is all very dull, I would not state it except that you ask for it.

We all ought to make sacrifices for literature.

Writing. It is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.

Inaccrochable - A picture a painter paints and then he cannot hang it when he has a show and nobody will buy it because they cannot hang it either. -said by Gertrude Stein

write. There was going to be everything that a man needed to write except to be alone. Zelda

Mike had a way of getting an intensity of feeling into shaking hands.

Dele poca importancia al vestir y no le dé ninguna importancia a la moda, cómprese vestidos cómodos y que duren, y con lo ahorrado en vestir podrá comprar cuadros

Scott was a man then who looked like a boy with a face between handsome and pretty... The mouth worried you until you knew him and then it worried you more.

If you can do this you are beginning to get what you are trying for, which is to make something that will become a part of the reader's experience and a part of his memory.

Look, if you can't write why don't you learn to write criticism?

Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well.

I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

no good writer can do his job working in a fascist state, which is built on lies.

Write drunk; edit sober.

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and, having found what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.

am a journalist. But like all journalists I wish to write literature

I've never read anything, though, that could make you feel about the country the way we feel about it. . . I'd like to try to write something about the country and the animals and what it's like to some one who knows nothing about it.

Staying quiet doesn't mean I have nothing to say, it means I don't think you're ready to hear my thoughts.