Quotes About Expression

Fictional characters are the original avatars for writer and reader alike. In this place of freedom we can choose who we want to be. And we can find a spectrum of feeling, experience, sexuality, even anger or murder, not available in daily life.

Writers always put themselves into their work. But you can't just untangle it and take it back to its source.

You don't have to get into writing – it's not like a pair of jeans... The only way to write is to write – the rest may or not follow.

Often when she liked a picture she found that she was liking some part of herself, some part of her that was in accord with the picture

He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language.(Jeanette Winterson on T.S.Eliot)

That is what literature offers - a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.

Art is not documentary. It may incidentally serve that function in its own way but its true effort is to open to us dimensions of the spirit of the self that normally lie smothered under the weight of living.

Généralement, les gens qui savant peu parlent becoup, et les gens qui savant beaucoup parlent peu.

In order not to find me in contradiction with myself, I should be allowed enough time to explain myself

Man's first language, the most universal, the most energetic and the only language he needed before it was necessary to persuade men assembled together, is the cry of nature.

ni acerca de un libro si es útil, sino si está bien escrito. Las

Me preguntó si había copiado música alguna vez. Respondíle que a menudo, y era la verdad: el mejor modo como podía aprenderla era copiándola.

Figurábanse que yo podía escribir por oficio, como los demás literatos, cuando jamás he sabido escribir sino movido por la pasión

He examinado -dice- a los poetas y los miro como personas cuyo talento impone a las demás y a ellas mismas, que se las dan de sabias, a las que se tiene por tales, cuando tienen menos de eso que de ninguna otra cosa. De los poetas -continúa Sócrates- he

on ne connaît d'où est un homme qu'après qu'il a parlé.

If you want to say something clever, you have only to talk long enough.

To write a love letter, you have to start, without knowing, what you want to say, and end, without knowing what you have said.

My message will be very clear; it is that I think we have to continue to read novels. Because I think that the novel is a very good means to question the current world without having an answer that is too schematic, too automatic. The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Pay For Soup/Build A Fort/Set That On Fire

If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence. It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind.

1. sports 2. opera 3. weapons.

Her face, which had never seemed especially remarkable, looked almost beautiful, because she looked so happy.

Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour, she'd ask us, when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?