Quotes About Expression

Writing is a way of organizing experience and life itself.

She had the kind of face that must be seen in action to be attractive.

the sense that everyone was incommunicado with everyone else and living on an entirely wrong plane, so that the meaning, the message, the love, or whatever it was that each life contained, never could find its expression.

A book is a really long continuous process, which ideally, should be interrupted only by sleep.

Therese said, still laughing, laughing away all the longing and the intention of the night.

Sintió que el sí quedaba absorbido por la oscuridad, no como las demás noches, en que el sí había sido mudo, sin ni siquiera salir de él mismo. El sí deshizo el nudo que tenía en la cabeza tan bruscamente que le hizo daño. Era lo que había estado esperando decir, lo que el silencio de la habitación y las bestias al otro lado de las paredes habían estado esperando oír.

Writing, of course, is a substitute for the life I cannot live, am unable to live.

Todavía sonreía, como si no acabara de aprender a sonreír y no supiera cómo parar.

write down all those slender ideas.

Therese Belivet: I never asked for anything! Maybe that's the problem!

I like to avoid labels. It is American publishers who loved them.

The first person you should think of pleasing, in writing a book, is yourself. If you can amuse yourself for the length of time it takes to write a book, the publisher and the readers can and will come later.

Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking.

If the good news from cyberspace is that we're writing more, the bad news is that most of us aren't very good at it. Our words don't do justice to our ideas.

An idea in your head is merely an idle notion. But an idea written down, that's the beginning of something! Stripped down to its briefs, a piece of writing is nothing more than a handful of ideas, put into words and arranged to do a job. We all get ideas—try not thinking in the shower. The trick is to write them down.

Euphemia's eyelashes were blown back into her eyes, and her hair was whipped about until it all came down and streamed out behind her.

It was not so much what Vicki did that night: it was what she said. It was not so much her behaviour: it was her vocabulary!

it was easier to make a million dollars than to put a phrase into the English language.

Use what language you will,' said Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'you can never say anything but what you are.

articulate, and at ease in expressing their ideas on a one-to-one basis, become tongue-tied and terrified when faced with even a small audience. Businesspeople have been stymied in their careers because they fear speaking up

that it can be effectively done in almost any medium.

Brood over your topic until it becomes mellow and expansive...then put all these ideas down in writing, just a few words, enough to fix the idea...put them down on scraps of paper—you will find it easier to arrange and organize these loose bits when you come to set your material in order.

it is physically impossible to remain blue or depressed while you are acting out the symptoms of being radiantly happy!

But it is not only the messages going out at 140 characters or less that are at risk of signifying nothing. Any medium carrying a message that lacks meaning will fall short of its intention: a television ad, a department memo, a client email, a birthday card.