Quotes About Expression

Writing is one-third imagination, one-third experience, and one third observation.

If you write something that you love beyond all reason, it is wrong and you should strike it out.

I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at

He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear. Cash

That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at.

vomiting the crying

the listening part is afraid that there may not be time to say it. Dewey Dell - As I Lay Dying.

He says it harshly, savagely, but he does not say the word. Like a little boy in the dark to flail his courage and suddenly aghast into silence by his own noise.

He had a face like a nutcracker; a scrawny man of no particular age, with merry secretive eyes.

A novelist is a failed short story writer, and a short story writer is a failed poet.

I prefer to think that no writer has got time to be too concerned with style, that he is simply telling this dramatic instance in the most effective way he knows, that the book, the story, creates its own style.

I only write when the spirit moves me ... and the spirit moves me every day. William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi

Father said you swallow like you had a fishbone in your throat...

Después todos hablaron de lo que harían con veinticinco dólares. Todos hablaban a la vez, insistentes y contradictorias sus voces, convirtiendo lo irreal en posible, luego en probable, después en hecho incontrovertible, como hace la gente al trasnformar sus deseos en palabras.

I write when I am inspired and I make sure I am inspired every day.

El lenguaje es como la morfina.

It's a comfortable thing, music is.

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, being an artist is an excuse for a form of behavior.

A]nd I realized then the unmitigable chasm between all life and all print–that those who can, do, those who cannot and suffer enough because they can't, write about it.

I guess maybe a talking man hasn't got the time to ever learn much about anything except words.

Podría haber sido que mediante una conjunción planetaria todo el tiempo y la injusticia y el dolor se hicieran oír por un instante.

Every writer must learn to kill his little darlings.

He sho a preacher, mon! He didn't look like much at first, but hush!

Don't be a writer; be writing.