Quotes About Expression

almost painful, and even the scrawled

Waiting for inspiration to write is like standing at the airport waiting for a train.

The way you move is your autobiography in motion.

It's not all what you say, it's how you say it.

Words on a page were seductive, free, inviting everyone, without distinction.

If you want to make a Christian work, then be Christian, and simply try to make a beautiful work, into which your heart will pass; do not try to "make Christian.

That is why we not only learn from literature but enjoy it: it delights as it teaches. And it conveys its kind of truth through the creation of concrete images which incarnate or embody ideas which would otherwise remain abstract and nebulous.

There are never enough 'I love you's.

If you can't say Fuck you can't say, Fuck the government.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it...try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they'll take you away, man. You can't.

Take away the right to say 'fuck' and you take away the right to say 'fuck the government.

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you just can't help it.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

I have tried in my way to be free.

I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.

It probably isn't coincidental that so many of them are the work of writer-directors who are passionate about telling their stories—as opposed to journeymen who are simply carrying out an assignment

but dreams and myths are expressions of the human heart.

Poetry to [Milosz], then, was not so much a weapon as a witness against evil.

More than any other form of human expression, art is the barometer that lays bare a period's view of reality, of life, of man.

Some boys are happier being more feminine than masculine although they still have masculine elements. Some girls are happier being more masculine than feminine although they still have feminine elements. The explosion in the proportion of people who believe that they are trance gender may well represent the failure to understand that gender is two-dimensional not one-dimensional.

The notion of the opposite sex assumes that you are either masculine or feminine. It assumes a one dimensional continuum: feminine - masculine. But researchers have known for more than forty years that that notional is just isn't accurate.