Quotes About Expression

It has taken me most of my writing life to understand that my "writing place" is here where I live, and that my "writing voice" is just my regular old voice, the one I use all the time. I am aware that the most important things in my life and my work are so close to me that I didn't even fully recognize them for a long time.

Another reason the "Are you still writing?" question is so hard to answer is that to ask me "Are you still writing?" is like asking "Are you still breathing?" Writing is the way I stay aware of being alive, the way I find out what I'm thinking, the way I understand the world.

I am the definition of a powerful woman. I love with my whole body, heart, and soul. I say whatever the fuck is on my mind. I make huge mistakes proudly. I rage with as much passion as I grieve. I live my poetry, my art.

So many of us were taught to keep a lid on anything and everything outrageous. To just turn it off. We turn off our life force, turn off our feelings, turn off our sensuality, and as a consequence, we turn off our power.

Being shut down from our grief and rage deprives us of living our emotional and creative power. The practice of Swamping gives us that power back. We admit and embody the rupture. We roll around on the floor, rend our garments, throw our bodies into it. We experience and savor the full range of our feelings. If we want to live healthy lives as women, we need the space to grieve our asses off as often as we feel moved. Swamping gives us that opportunity.

I could claim that all my projects are altruistic, but I don't do that. All I'm saying is this: is it really a sacrilege to do the best you can, to express yourself, to do what I do?

Perhaps the true purpose of life is simply to express ourselves as best we can. Maybe my ability to keep finding new challenges appropriate to my age is part of the happiness, the thing that keeps me young, creative, and full of life. The setbacks and the opposition I've encountered are all part of my happiness. I have grown as a result and am still able to lead a self-determined life.

Art is the accomplice of love.

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble

The only excuse a man has for writing is that he express himself, that he reveal to others the kind of world reflected in the mirror of his soul; his only excuse is that he be original.

Let those who want to dance, dance. Let those who can awaken, awake.

Alors l'amour est une supercherie ? - Qu'en penses tu ? - Je pense que rien de ce que tu m'as montré ne tient contre ce que j'ai à te dire. - Qu'as tu à me dire ? - Je t'aime, dit Viviane.

That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.

Do you realize how angry you sound?" must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.

I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.

Even monsters need a person who truly wants to listen - to hear - so that someday we might find the words that are more than boxes.

I retreat from my bars, wondering why people who live outside choose such ugly words. Maybe that is what happens when you are outside, and the world clangs and barrels and shouts twenty-four hours a day, from your radio your television your wife your neighbor the lawn mower down the street and the scream of airplanes from the sky. Maybe then you use ugly words to tell life to shut up.

every which way, making her resemble a cross between Cruella DeVille and Medusa, she thought disgustedly. She needed a barrette, a headband, something. Inspiration struck. Lou rifled through the bridal debris until she found the item she'd been looking for: her veil. Lips pursed

He wrote very well in those days, as it happens, much better than he does now. He had absolute convictions, and style is nothing more than the absolute conviction of possessing a style.

Porque Kafka descubre un nuevo modo de leer: la literatura le da forma a la experiencia vivida, la constituye como tal y la anticipa.

No puedo decir nada, salvo leer y recordar frases ajenas.

Para escribir es preciso no sentirse acomodado en el mundo, es un escudo para afrontar la vida (y hablar de eso). Son

I'm the one who ought to get angry," said Fiver. "But I'm no good at it, that's the trouble.

I don't like straight lines: men make them.