Quotes About Expression

It has been said that there are two types of couples in the world—those who fight and those who distance. I'd add a third type: those who do both. One rails while the other shuts down. Hailstorm and tortoise.

Do you remember it when your body shuts down and, for the life of you, you can barely squeak out a word or two?

Use "and," never "but." "But" cancels out whatever came before it. "And" is roomy enough for all of your many feelings.

You know that expression, 'wild horses couldn't drag me away'? Well, let me tell you, that was obviously made by someone who's never been on the other side of a lead rope when a wild horse starts running.

And there was no way to unsay words you'd blurted out, no matter how sorry you were.

Pen names are masks that allow us to unmask ourselves.

Ink on paper is as beautiful to me as flowers on the mountains; God composes, why shouldn't we?

Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul — and you answer.

Writer's block is a disease for which there is no cure, only respite.

Being an author is being in charge of your own personal insane asylum.

I've had secrets come out of my typewriter in invisible ink.

Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health — it rusts your spirit and your hips.

Art is the struggle to understand.

I swim across a sea of quotes, splashing in the words and riding the waves of wisdom.

Ink smears, as thoughts sometimes do.

The smell of ink is intoxicating to me — others may have wine, but I have poetry.

Poetry is not always words.

Souls wouldn't wear suits and ties, they'd wear blue jeans and sit cross-legged with a glass of red wine.

Love letters and poems aren't the least bit difficult to write, if you write directly from your heart into the ink and don't channel through your brain first.

Her asterisks are daft, postscripts redundant, and prose parenthetical.

I heard the teardrop hit my pillow before I even knew I was crying.