Quotes About Expression

Normal, nice people don't become writers.

Travel had to do with movement and truth, with trying everything, offering yourself to experience and then reporting it.

One child was provoked to a stumbling dance at the feet of the fiddler, who was sawing his heart out with his eyes shut.

I'm a writer, I said. I like long stories.

And I began writing, to console myself in my solitude and to ease the passing of time.

All this confession and evasion, in the relentless interrogation of language learning, sometimes led to awkwardness.

Since I will never write the autobiography I once envisioned—volume one, Who I Was; volume two, I Told You So—writing about travel has become a way of making sense of my life

Fiction give life to places in expressive ways that no history book can begin to suggest.

I really hate it when a teacher has to show that she isn't behind the times by using some expression which sounds so up-to-date you know for sure she's behind the times.

Be yourself! Be individualistic!' he called out after me. 'But for God's sake get your hair cut. You look like an oddball.

She wanted to cry. To scream. To shriek like a crazy wind.

Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.

How do we as artists question our sins in front of a greater audience? How do we as Jews show ourselves as flawed and complex human beings?

He saw her bright, fierce little face break into laughter when the crowd laughed. It was good. Laughter is good for the soul and all your interior works.

The hardest thing was simply to speak.

True, she did speak as she was being tortured, but can moans and cries be classed as words? Besides, they often stilled her by gagging.

For today we hear seemingly normal people, even those with a level head on their shoulders, blithely speaking of love as though it were some frothy feeling of no real consequence.

From now on the only times you will open your mouth here in the presence of a man will be to cry out or to caress." So

a woman's desire is harmless and of no consequence?

a reviewer should never be afraid to make a fool of himself.

It is something a man would never have thought of, or at least would never have dared express. And

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

Don't bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions.

I am surprised how difficult for people is to say I love you. They only say the three magic words when they are sure they will hear I love you too back. C'mon! Spread the energy of love without expecting anything! Cowards are incapable of expressing love; it is the prerogative of the brave