Quotes About Expression

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.

In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.

I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in equal measure. I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself, and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.

I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.

I don't read much nonfiction because the nonfiction I do read always seems to be so badly written. What I enjoy about fiction - the great gift of fiction - is that it gives language an opportunity to happen.

I don't do nonfiction anymore. Eventually, you just feel constrained by the facts. You want to go where the words take you, and people's actual lives don't always conform. And you can't know them that well.

What I don't like is constructing a book that fits in with any kind of generic template, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.

I love playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to do when I get to make things up than when writing nonfiction.

I am an off-Broadway, nonprofit kind of guy.

It's as if to be interesting, you had to be depressed and messy, but that's complete nonsense.

All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.

I don't like the Samba; it's nonsense. With a lot of these Latin dances I can't really understand what they're all about. I like the Rumba and the Paso Doble but the others I could take or leave.

Sometimes I say things that I can't believe came out of my mouth. Or I won't mean something and it will come out completely nonsensical.

Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to put on a show for people. I don't want to just be sitting there doing nothing, so that's when I started to dance.

I can dance for, like, four or five hours nonstop without even drinking water. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

It's nonstop Ben Harper in my apartment.

I loved cartoons as a kid, and so many funny moments in animation for me are nonverbal sounds, unarticulated mouth noise.

As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that's what I do, too.