Quotes About Expression

I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am afraid of writing and then I'm afraid of not writing.

Nobody hears a single word you say, but you keep on talkin' till your dying day.

Poetry is God's work.

I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries.

To make this world a whole lot brighter, when I grow up I'll be a writer.

Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!

Moreover, there is so much more that needs to be said; but book writing is like picture painting in this regard: it can never be "done," never "perfected." One must simply find a good stopping place, and I pray that I have chosen such a place to stop working on this particular project.

Like when people say they slept like a baby. Do they mean they slept well? Or do they mean they woke up every ten minutes, screaming?

I'd love to work with Sufjan Stevens. He so gets it. He's amazing.

No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.

when foreigners used American profanity. The swear words always seemed too big to fit in their mouths and were spit out rather than spoken, like a glob of tough meat they couldn't chew and didn't dare try to swallow.

This was a woman with an entire vocabulary of sighs.

Danielson was a talking head in his fifties

I'm a lesbian.

played her body like an instrument

Cannon, whose given name was Floyd Gruber, wore an elaborately embroidered Japanese silk kimono over his three-hundred-pound girth, and his crude oil black hair was tied into a tight man bun.

The woman had a provocative, slightly bemused expression on her face that took on a new meaning with the hole in her forehead and the empty eye socket. Instead of saying "Fuck me," her expression now seemed to be saying "Fuck you.

That's how Rihanna started," Ian said. "I have a hard time picturing Rihanna singing 'Hava Nagila.

Alfred's sister, Olive Deering, was famous in those years for her sentiments during her filming of the endless DeMille epic The Ten Commandments: "Who do I have to fuck to get off this picture?")

Kristen Murphy

You see, more than a simple matter of putting down words, writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write.

You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write; they do it under the compulsion that makes any artist the victim he is, but they loathe the process of sitting down trying to turn thoughts into reasonable sentences.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

Realism and art cannot live together.