Quotes About Expression

Penulis sama dengan orang-orang lain, kecuali untuk satu perbedaan kecil yang penting. Orang lain berpikir dan merasa setiap hari, tetapi mereka tidak melakukan apa-apa dengan itu. Sebaliknya, penulis bereaksi.

Writing words is like flying, Rachel thought. Words aren't solid. Words are lighter than air. But even so, they can sometimes give you a lift.

Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.

Willa Cather said that she write best when she stopped trying to write and began simply to remember.

I prefer a man who is unskillful, who is an awkward writer, but who has something to say, who is dealing himself one time on every page.

writing about something was not the moral equivalent of doing it

Writing is merely public speaking on paper, but to a much larger audience.

Authors always feel in danger of being abandoned by loved ones. This is a potent fear. Yet it's as inevitable as writer's cramp when we presume to write words for others to read.

Christopher Isherwood tried to trick a good topic into rising from his unconscious by irritating it, "deliberately writing nonsense until it intervenes, as it were, saying, 'All right, you idiot, let me fix this.

Keys to Great Writing by Stephen Wilbers

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

Accept your genius and say what you think.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.

In good writing, words become one with things.

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

Language is the archives of history…. Language is fossil poetry.