Quotes About Expression

Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.

It was difficult to find the right words, words which could also explain to her what she herself was feeling.

Don't let it worry you, not being able to speak,' Dustfinger had often told her. 'People tend not to listen anyway, right?

You want me to write something about him? Heavens, it was confusing enough when I had only my own characters to worry about!

We make for your sake such things as stand fast, Through the ages these pages forever will last. On blank paper the printer sets down what is heard Giving life to what's rife with the power of the word. Michael Kongehl, 'On the White Art', Die Weisse und die Schwarze Kunst

They let him in without a word, their prince's poet, the man who put their world in ink words, and had made it out of words.

I just planted this story, but it's growing the way it wants to, and everyone expects me to know in advance what kind of flowers it will have!

And these hands here don't want to write anymore! I'm afraid of words, Meggie! Once they were like honey, now they're poison, pure poison! But what is a writer who doesn't love words anymore? What have I come to? This story is devouring me, crushing me, and I'm its creator!

But we'd need words for that, exactly the right words, because only the right words unlock the doors between worlds.

All words are written in the same ink, 'flower' and 'power', say, are much the same, and though I might write 'blood, blood, blood' all over the page the paper would not be stained nor would I bleed. Philippe Jacottet, 'Chant d'en bas

The wrong words. They were true a hundred times over, yet they sounded like a lie. Hadn't he always known it? Words were useless. At times they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moment you really needed them. You could never find the right words, never, and where would you look for them? The heart is as silent as a fish, however much the tongue tries to give it a voice.

Was there any more wretched existence than the life of a writer who had run out of words?

If anyone would ever bring back the words, he supposed it would be the children.

A number is random if the simplest way to express it is by writing it down.

We were dancing, lost in the godbeat and the thrash and the screaming--TAKE IT BACK! TAKE IT BACK!

after Anonymous brought in its Real Name Policy. They

Seth was a portable, external id. Not always comfortable or appropriate, but handy nevertheless.

If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there I said it!

Everything I think of now is too rude to actually say.

I freely admit I'm confused. I'm a confused and troubled individual but at the same time...Its Free!

Artists are always good for conversation, so long as you want to talk about their art.

In the presence of my muse, I no longer NEEDED to draw.

Como é bom deixar uma marca na superfície branca. Fazer um mapa com meus passos mesmo que seja temporário.

I was thinking,' said Crusher dreamily [...] 'about LANGUAGE and how in English two negatives make a positive, but in spriteish, a double negative is still a negative. However there is NO language in which two positives make a negative ...' 'Yeah right, like THAT'S the problem,' said Xar, sarcastically. 'I hadn't thought of that!' said Crusher in gentle surprise [...]. 'You're correct, Car. Yeah, right IS a statement in English where two positives make a negative...