Quotes About Expression

Existe un perpetuo ir y venir entre la lectura y el beso, circunstancia de la que dan fe numerosos ejemplos literarios.

The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.

The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

That's what we're all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand. We might just as well let the res tof it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.

Write what you care about, write what moves you, what intrigues you and you find compelling, write what angers you and makes you sad.

Her face has lost its usual resolute determination; she's actually enjoying herself spontaneously, and the lack of her usual self-consciousness allows us to see just how beautiful she is.

You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot." [ Baffled at a Bookcase ( London Review of Books , Vol. 33 No. 15, 28 July 2011)]

Clichés can be quite fun. That's how they got to be clichés.

You can't go through sustained cruelty and terror for a large swathe of your life and not talk about it and be okay.

really made me feel that women have been coerced into a way of presenting themselves that is basically a form of bondage. Their shoes, their skirts, even their nails seem designed to stop them from being able

The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting

If poetry is a circus, then the Big Tent we're under has to have room for a lot of different freak shows.

Students throughout the totalitarian world risk life and limb for freedom of expression, many American college students are demanding that big brother restrict their freedom of speech on campus. This demand for enhanced censorship is not emanating only from the usual corner – the know-nothing fundamentalist right – it is coming from the radical, and increasingly not-so-radical left as well.

Imagine that your mouth is a water spout. When you open the valve (speak), whatever comes out is an indicator of what's inside of you.

He didn't sing the language the way the French did, enjoying every word.

The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can't be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.

I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.

It's not a job but a condition. (Alan Garner on writing)

Oh, drop dead, you miserable cow.