Quotes About Expression

I have always suffered from the feeling that it's better to read a good book than to write a poor one; and I've done so much mixed reading in my time that my mind is full of echoes and voices of better men. But this book I'm worrying about now really deserves to be written, I think, for it has a message of its own.

It always seemed to me that [Henry James] had a kind of rush of words to the head and never stopped to sort them out properly.

Talkers never write. They go on talking." There

Each of us, desperately clutching his identity amid the impalatable onward pour of Time and Thought, finds only in art-and chiefly in written art- means to halt that ceaseless, cruel drift.

Very often human beings don't become available for the purposes of art until they have shaken off some of their dogged, self-preserving sanity.

There are fashions in saying things just as there are fashions in clothes. You wear what other people are wearing not so much because it's attractive but so as not to be conspicuous; so you can go on bind yourself underneath without being noticed too much.

If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it

I've always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies.

We think of communication as words. But a screaming child is trying to say something. A tantrum carries a message. Hitting is communication. Sleep patterns carry a message. Even the sulky belligerence of a teen is an attempt to convey a message. Everything the child does says something to the person who is willing to take the time to listen carefully.

I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I'm acting, I feel great. It's not to be famous.

No sir, I don't know why, but my eyes don't cry no more.

Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved.

I read her eyes like paragraphs and her tears like chapters for she didn't have much to say with words, but rather, silence. And never let them tell you that silence, isn't beautiful. For silence is what happens when words fall asleep and you must carry the belief that one day they will wake up inside of you.

In the expression of grief lies recovery from grief itself.

I had imagined myself into existence. I wrote because of an inner need,and that need was to create a clearer vision of myself, and in writing I became what I wrote.

In the expression of grief lies recovery from grief itself. Nor

His face was cast from a serious mold

The guy did the thing like a bad simile.

Art is the place where the points in time that reason holds apart are reunited.

In a word, a concert hall is a place where middle-class white people can feel safe together.