Quotes About Expression

Your writing chamber isn't the office or the study — it's your heart.

I write because... every writer has only one story to tell, really, and I haven't told mine yet.

Writing is both a sacrificing and a saving of soul.

My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel Pepys, and Franklin Pierce Adams imitating Samuel Pepys. I was quite apt to throw in a "bless the mark" at any spot, and to begin a sentence with "Lord" comma.

Writers are just people who have a whole lot on the inside that they need to get to the outside, with pen and paper their preferred method of transport. Same with dancers, artists, and singers — all the same urges with differing transportation.

...a writer is, by trade, a talkative fellow on paper and appreciates an audience.

When I stop the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

Writing is easy. You just sit down and focus — but not too hard.

An author plants the alphabet — and harvests flowers, nourishment, and weeds.

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

Pen and ink is wit's plough.

"Mr. Harte, what books shall I read to acquire a perfect style?" "Oh, lord!" he groaned, swinging around in his chair, "for pity's sake, don't read anything! Just write! Write! Write!"

Writing isn't hard; no harder than ditch-digging.

Some writers have beautiful poetry inside that explodes from the pen into prose. Others hold their inner prose until it implodes to poetry.

Reading in bed is a gateway drug to writing in bed.

Some authors write with a grave ink, of a dramatic pen dipped into their dark souls.

I was learning then that the terrible thing about being a writer is that you don't decide to be one, you discover that you are one.

These things sift through our minds, with the years, like sand, and find their way out in ink.

The pen is a tree whose fruit is expression.

My only cure for writer's block is insomnia.

Authorship is exhibitionism, and readers a species of voyeur.

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

Writing helps keep me sane — or at least a pen's length from insane.

The best writers always make poetry, whether it comes out prose or verse.