Quotes About Expression

Only a mind steeped in true love can write irony. The others write satire.

A novel…is a golden kettle into which you pour all of experience… You can toss in great chunks of meat and fragrant bones and stock left over from the meals before. You can add fragments of character or the whole man. You can have scenes that fill a quarter of the book and others that flash by in a fleeting glance. In a novel there's nothing you can't do, if you do it with passion.

The opening sentence alone contained thirty-six words—monstrous

western paintings did not occur.

It was language, which tyrannizes us all

The real poet has the last line in mind when he writes his first.

A really well-done first draft of a book bares your soul. The purpose of revision is so that everyone who reads the published version believes you were writing about theirs.

The Secret of Drawing consists of just two things: 1) Making lines on paper; and 2) Choosing where they go.

Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven. The world is beautiful because they have lived; without them, laboring humanity would perish.

You may be keeping accounts, and presently you shall walk out of the door that for so long has seemed to you the barrier of your ideals, and shall find yourself before an audience—the pen still behind your ear, the ink stains on your fingers and then and there shall pour out the torrent of your inspiration.

Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven. The world is beautiful because they have lived; without them, labouring humanity would perish.

Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of humankind.

So speak to influence. Don't speak to call a flower yellow. Speak

Speak to breathe spirit into an idea, to be enthusiastic, to convey emotion, to influence. This is the only way to have impact with your unique creativity.

When you expose yourself there are many ways for people to attack you. People will stab you and hurt you. But you can't create art unless you show how unique you are while being inclusive with others who share your problems.

I would watch either Michael Cera doing comedy or Louis CK doing stand-up. This would

Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.

There are lots of variations on the path to self-publishing; this is the one Kamal and I have both used. WRITE THE BOOK.

On a much smaller scale, I

Every day, be creative. Creativity is a muscle.

IDEAS ARE THE CURRENCY OF LIFE. Not money.

Take a camera. Make a YouTube video. Make 100 YouTube videos. Now you have a show. All by yourself.

Humans are great storytellers. That's what separates us from every other species.

If a piece of writing is not hard, it's weak. It's not worth writing. It's not worth sharing. If it's not hard, it's soft. If you can't BLEED or KILL or SLASH YOUR GUTS with your word, then keep it to yourself.