Quotes About Expression

Her smiles were sudden and transformative, but I never understood what caused them.

Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.

Fanfiction isn't copying - it's a celebration . One long party, from the first capital letter to the last full stop!

I have the death sentence in seven genres.

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.

He also thought that 'abbreviation' was too long for its meaning, that 'monosyllabic' should have one syllable, 'dyslexic' should be renamed 'O' and 'unspeakable' should be respelt 'unsfzpxkable.

being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.

And he gave me a smile that looked as though it had come from a hastily-read handbook on cultivating personal charm.

The verses of Byron, Keats or Poe are real whether they are in bootleg form or not. You can still read them for the same effect.

All those words,' she whispered, 'so diligently placed together, and so pointlessly torn apart.

You've got a face longer than a Dickens novel. What's the problem?

Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.

Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own grey minds.

You can lose yourself in a book, but you find yourself in Poetry

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

Since nothing annoys a writer who doesn't write as much as being asked what he's writing

porque los libros siempre acaban cobrando vida propia, y porque uno no escribe acerca de lo que quiere, sino de lo que puede...un escritor no escribe nunca acerca de lo que conoce, sino precisamente de lo que ignora.

A veces tengo la impresión de que escribo para entender la vida

Lo que quiero decir es que quien siempre sabe adónde va nunca llega a ninguna parte, y que sólo se sabe lo que se quiere decir cuando ya se ha dicho

los libros siempre acaban cobrando vida propia, y porque uno no escribe acerca de lo que quiere, sino de lo que puede;

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.

To address right-brained people, you use pictures, appeals to the imagination, color, rhythm, and space.