Quotes About Expression

But sometimes when you're different You just need a different song

Algerian-born writer Albert Camus elegantly expressed this notion in the famous quotation, "Ma patrie, c'est la langue française" ("My homeland is the French language").

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?

So it's not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don't stop people expressing themselves but rather force them to express themselves; What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, and ever rarer, thing that might be worth saying.

Because linguistic expressions prompt for meanings rather than represent meanings, linguistic systems do not have to be, and in fact cannot be, analogues of conceptual systems. Prompting for meaning construction is a job they can do; representing meanings is not.

I don't trust words. I trust pictures.

That is not the case. We do not blame words for being insufficient to express new ideas.

People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.

A soul that is unbound is as mad as one with cemented borders.

Words can be as irrevocable as an action. They can cut as deeply as a surgeon's scalpel.

Despite the convent walls, when I was writing, my mind was free.

What happens when self-erasure has been the norm for so long that the You cannot find its way back to I?

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?" Muriel Rukeyser wrote in 1968, the year of my birth. "The world would split open.

If you are feeling constrained by a group that you belong to, ask yourself, "How can I participate in this community and still be who I am?

Let your body move. It will give voice to a language that can heal.

When we write down our dreams we transform what we imagine into reality.

I tell it to you now to remind you the reason for stories in the first place. It is a way to pluck the loose stitching of a garment so capacious one cannot tell where the top is, where the bottom is. In this way our words take full sail and lift us to another time and place.

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.

Tous les genres sont bons, Hors le genre ennuyeux." (All genres are good, Except the boring one.

I am writing like an angel

Por lo menos una vez en la vida cada mujer merecía enloquecer de esa manera

She formed the words, chewed them, felt them move in her mouth, but something in her refused to speak them.

Así como esta lluvia, me desbordo en palabras para contarte todos mis quehaceres, para meterte en todos los rincones de mi día, en todos los aleros de mis horas