Quotes About Expression

For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin.

I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.

Mom, I am a rich man.

Feelings are the lights on the dashboard of life!

Yes it's pink. That's how you know it's for ladies. That might be the stupidest thing I've ever heard you say.

Fuck you," he said, resorting to that last argument of vice presidents.

It's as if there's no one at all working the drawbridge between his brain and his mouth.

That sound . . . that sound, it came from his mouth. It was the song of something dying. Something that never did live.

You always feel better after you sing. It's like exercise, or eating your vegetables, or mediation. But with glitter and the occasional high note.

His voice was low and manly,

Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.

Readers often feel they know an author because they've read their books. To a degree, this is often true. We write from our individual worldviews, using the beliefs and understanding we have of the world and others.

A woman stood on the sidewalk, her arms outstretched and her face turned to the sky. Sheer enjoyment splashed across her features, its intensity tugging at his heart. It was a raw emotion he rarely witnessed.

I know it's hard to write, darling. But it's harder not to. The only way you'll find out if you "have it in you" is to get to work and see if you do.

You go on by finding a channel for your love and another for your rage.

You will regret the small thing you didn't say for the rest of your life.

Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives.

I chose Van Gogh.

Write so blazingly good that you can't be framed... Write like a motherfucker.

all the things I'd done in my life, of all the versions of myself I'd lived out, there was one that had never changed: I was a writer.

It creates a secret you're too beautiful to keep

Grief doesn't have a face.

when we identify with what another has said or written, we use those words as an articulation of our own inner voices, not only as a celebration of theirs.