Quotes About Expression

Art and literature are my surrogate religions.

All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.

As far as how I create games, I'm just reflecting what I feel, the things I have in my mind. I put those out there. Some of the things that I'm going through, the things that surround me, might be reflected there. But for me, it's a natural process. I just reflect what I feel into the game.

You do not separate the human being from the actions he does or the actions which surround him, but you see what it is like to break these actions up in different ways, to allow passion - and it is passion - to appear for each person in his own way.

Now, the story makes no reference to specific years—it uses that eighteen-followed-by-a-dash business which writers were so fond of in those days, I've never understood why

Books are not missiles, you don't aim them at anybody

Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.

Write what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?

I'd like to go out in the front yard and shout something. "None of this is worth it!" That's what I'd like people to hear.

It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes. It is his world and no other. This is one of the things that distinguishes one writer from another. Not talent. There's plenty of that around. But a writer who has some special way of looking at things and who gives artistic expression to that way of looking: that writer may be around for a time.

You have to have been in love to write poetry.

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones, with the punctuation in the right places...

There is no God, and conversation is a dying art.

Why don't you kids dance? he decided to say, and then said it. Why don't you dance?

She kept talking. She told everyone. There was more to it, and she was trying to get it talked out. After a time, she quit trying.

I'd like to go out in the front yard and shout something. None of this is worth it! That's what I'd like people to hear.

There were things he wanted to say, grieving things, consoling things, things like that.

La chose dont je parle ici a une parenté avec le style, mais ne se ramène pas au seul style. C'est la griffe particulière et reconnaissable entre toutes qu'un écrivain appose à tout ce qu'il écrit. Ce n'est pas le talent. Le talent, ça court les rues. Mais un écrivain qui a une façon spéciale de voir les choses et qui donne une forme artistique à cette manière de voir est un écrivain qui a des chances de durer.

There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.

Le parole possono essere precise anche al punto da apparire piatte, l'importante è che siano cariche di significato; se usate bene, possono toccare tutte le note.

I'd like to go out in the front yard and shout something. 'None of this is worth it!' That's what I'd like people to hear.

Però ha certi occhi, disse Bonnie. Che hanno gli occhi? Sono tristi. Gli occhi più tristi che abbia mai visto in un uomo.

He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all of the tricks and has nothing to say.