Quotes About Expression

If you ask me if I'm okay again, I'm going to smack myself in the face just to punish you.

Boys. I'd turn gay if they weren't so sexy.

If you ask me if I'm okay again, I'm going to smack myself in the face just to punish you.

We are the ones who take this thing called music and line it up with this thing called time. We are the ticking, we are the pulsing, we are underneath every part of this moment. And by making the moment our own, we are rendering it timeless. There is no audience. There are no instruments. There are only bodies and thoughts and murmurs and looks. It's the concert rush to end all concert rushes, because this is what matters. When the heart races, this is what it's racing towards.

She never said anything unless she had something important to express, which made you realise how much of what people generally said – and he included himself in this statement – was unimportant.

Writing comes out of tension, tension between what's inside and what's outside.

Indeed, we believe everyone has a book in them - a book, not a symphony, and not even a poem. What is it, this book everyone has in them? It is, perhaps, that haunting entity, the 'true' self. The true self seeks release, not constraint.

I have this theory that most artists never leave childhood, that you're endlessly trying to work out what happened. And leaving university and facing this idea that there is something called adult life that I was going to enter and get a job – I just couldn't. So writing became what I did as soon as I stopped studying.

literature has long since discovered and documented this place of which I thought myself to be the first inhabitant,…

the artist can create outside himself the perfect replica of his own intentions. The rest of us just create a mess, or something hopelessly wooden, no matter how brilliantly we imagined it. That's

Some people write simply because they don't know how to live in the moment, I said, and have to reconstruct itand live in it afterwards.

The rules of writing are mostly indistinguishable from the rules of living, but this tends to be the last place people look when searching for 'there'.

ellipsis, he'd been told, could literally be translated as 'to hide behind silence'. It's fascinating stuff, he said.

Like God, my father expressed himself through absence: it was easier, perhaps, to be grateful to someone who wasn't there.

Music is a betrayer of secrets; it is more treacherous even than dreams, which at least have the virtue of being private.

He was all for people speaking their minds but it did make him miss the time when what was beneath the surface had been permitted to stay there.

Mothers are such liars,' he said. 'Language is all they have. They fill you up with language if you let them.

Why do you play at being a woman?

I don't know,' I said. 'I don't think I know how to be a woman. I believe that no one ever showed me.' 'It isn't a question of showing,' he said. 'It's a question of being permitted.

was a funny idea, writing in a language not your own. It almost makes you feel guilty, she said, the way people feel forced to use English, how much of themselves must get left behind in that transition, like people being told to leave their homes and take only a few essential items with them.

And if there's one thing I know it's that writing comes out of tension, tension between what's inside and what's outside.

Não ter uma identidade na qual se escorar tornava você um escritor melhor, você via a vida com olhos menos atormentados.

E se tem uma coisa que eu sei é que essa escrita vem da tensão, uma tensão entre o que está dentro e o que está fora.

Joskus minun vain täytyy saada puhua jotta tuntisin itseni todelliseksi, ja toivoisin että sinäkin puhuisit minulle." Hän makasi vaiti pimeässä ja tuijotti kattoon. Sitten hän sanoi: "Minusta tuntuu kuin sydämeni puhuisi sinulle koko ajan.