Quotes About Expression

Being a woman seemed to mean listening to the music boys liked and neither dancing nor singing along.

Song and dance are explosion and interruption, and sometimes the only way to keep up with what's happening.

loving music didn't have to mean wanting the same song all the time, or believing it perfect, and that what you loved didn't have to add up, let alone define you.

It's the same with writer's block—a surefire way to break the spell is to begin writing furiously, about anything.

The thing is, even if you start out with a firm resolve and a clear intention, your journal will die a slow death if you write in it only when the spirit moves you.

journal; it's a deeply intimate affair and by far the most private of all writing projects, and no one can or should tell you exactly how to approach it. That would be like advising you on how to bathe or pray—it's really your own deal. I do, however, know what works for me and for lots of other writers, and I have ideas to share.

As Barbara Kingsolver said, "Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.

In fact, there's nothing like travel to swing wide all the artistic channels,

I have never understood the saying 'To think outside the box.' Why would anyone sit inside of a box and then think outside of it. Rather just get out of the box.

Communication is not the preserve of humans; it is the one thing that is truly universal.

As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, "People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of imaginary people are apt to be a little strange.

The novel, I submit, is not merely the ultimate goal. It is also the place to start.

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.

Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

Music is only love looking for words.

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you...

Art like life is an open secret.

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

Decide if a poem is a question or a declaration, a meditation or an outcry.