Quotes About Expression

The world was doing its best to ignore the fact that I was a writer.

I am demonstrating to you how tasty I think words are. I'm having sex with words in front of you. I'm playing around with them. I'm getting off. I'm trying to titillate you. There's this magical substance, language, that I'm laying out for you. Then you're going to fondle it.

Prose divides shame into stations.

Half the urge to write is the premonition that later the thought I am having might disappear so I had better write it down while I still have the inclination, however overshadowed this desire is by indolence.

They starred into each others eyes even as the guards took hold of Antoinette. She did not utter a word, but a gleam in her and the peaceful expression on her face spoke volumes to Aidan. The cell door slammed shut, and Aidan stood alone in the center of the room

I know I am a writer because until I'm writing I don't know what I know.

Poetry presents the thing in order to convey the feeling. It should be precise about the thing and reticent about the feeling, for as soon as the mind responds and connects with the thing the feeling shows in the words; this is how poetry enters deeply into us.

Bareheaded. No cap. Instead of crisp whites, a peasant blouse. "You're not a nurse.

o rir é, no fim de contas, uma variante de chorar...

I'd scale that monster sycamore if I could. Right to the top. And I'd yell her name across the rooftops for the whole world to hear. -Bryce

Poetry can be written only because it has been written.

Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.

To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress...Now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion.

be ventriloquism

The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks; it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's voice, that we can sometimes hear only when it does not speak.

People are not merely the product of a zeitgeist; Shakespeare is not just an Elizabethan writer.

I'm taking an art class, and the nude model just quit. Because I like to finger paint.

My license plate says PMS. Nobody cuts me off.

I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian ' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.

Without the color, I don't know how to proceed. I'm lost in shades of gray.

If I could paint, I would do it myself.

May you fall from the top of the Chrysler Building and may people lean out their windows and hit you on the head with a baseball bat as you go by.

Sounds painful, but the lady on the bottle is smiling