Quotes About Expression

It is a disservice to any form to elevate it as the form.

Transforming our intuitions into articulate form is precisely the purpose of this book.

The plain fact was he knew how to do it intuitively, but he could not articulate what it was that he did.

God damn you, stop shoving your rotten soul in my lap!

Writing is my vacation from living

I know it's useless to talk. But sometimes I feel so lonely.

Well, they say a good cry does you a lot of good.

People need to feel safe to be who they are—to speak up when they have an idea, or to speak out when they feel something isn't right.

Hãy nói n?u b?n có nh?ng l?i l? m?nh hÆ¡n. N?u không, hãy im l?ng.' (_Euripide_)

Stories are not just entertainment, not to me. A story records and transmits the experience of being human. It teaches us what it's like to be who we are. Nothing but art can do this. There is no science that can capture the inner life. No words can describe it directly. We can only speak of it in metaphors. We can only say: it's like this—this story, this picture, this song.

To be a human being is to be a continual work of art.

Meaning is above nature—it is supernatural—because it is the idea that nature expresses.

Metaphor is even built into the basic structure of creation. DNA is a code. A code is a kind of language. DNA expresses an idea—the idea of a man and a woman together—and brings it into being as you or me.

In literature, as in love, one can only speak for himself.

see my work as giving them a voice, a final say. But to do that effectively, you have to learn to stifle the sentiment.

Maxinquaye by Tricky,

Unfortunately I'm one of those people who writes better when they're unhappy.

Julia's defining quality, maybe, was her combination of outer normality, even placidity, and a roiling, crazily volatile inner life that expressed itself mainly in her writing.

Don't overthink it. Just write.

We're all twisted messes inside. What matters is how we manifest our actions on the surface.

You have a judgmental face." "I'm a scientist. I look at everything this way.

For me, at least, half of dealing with grief is trying to figure out what I'm supposed to show the outside world.

The trouble is we expect the emote part of emotion. Humans are social primates, and our experiences have to be externalized to be acknowledged by others.

I always felt so different - I felt I was in the wrong shell.