Quotes About Expression

Childeren are much better at bringing out what they have imagined in their heads. Ä°t's much more straightforward. They don't try to do a good job. Ä°t's nice, isn't it ? Because it's pure, innocent. Ä°t's a part of me that's been lost.

At school, your tests only have one right answer and you might get zero or half points if you put the wrong answer. But in what we call ''the real world'', things aren't so black and white, so you should think about things for yourself and express them in words or pictures. This is how you comminicate with people, with other people.

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!

The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.

No, she laughed." How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say 'No' at the same time, it sounds like neighing — yet people are perpetually doing it in novels. If they did it in real life they would be locked up.

Could he possibly believe a purple tunic over a butler- yellow shirt and scarlet pants became him.

There is a pause, while she turns the great pages of her volume of rage, and puts her finger on just the right word.

A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts tat frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.

As Danton sees it, the most bizarre aspect of Camille's character is his desire to scribble over every blank surface; he sees a guileless piece of paper, virgin and harmless, and persecutes it till it is black with words, and then besmirches its sister, and so on, through the quire.

Oh, by the thrice-beshitten shroud of Lazarus!

It is a sure sign of troubled minds, the habit of quotation.

Richard goes with a bob of the head but without another word. It seems he interprets 'don't tell anybody' as 'don't tell anybody but Rafe', because ten minutes later Rafe comes in, and stands looking at him, with his eyebrows raised. Red-headed people can look quite strained when they are raising eyebrows that aren't really there.

By the tits of Holy Agnes

There's nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon.

The king has great power, but he has no power to know me, except through what I say and what I do.

For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography. They break the rules and admit the thing that is imagined, but is not licensed to be imagined.

I am always translating, he thinks: if not language to language, then person to person.

Give me a book," she said. "A book of sermons, anything." "What do you want a book for?" "I want words. I've got to have more words. I was kept stupid on purpose.

A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

She held out her hands in a curve around herself, to show how emotion distends you. It makes you feel full up, a big weight in your chest, and then you don't want your dinner.

There are codes so subtle that they change their whole meaning in half a line, or in a syllable, or in a pause, a caesura.

as a writer] you take up a life in your imagination, in which you can live all the other parts of yourself that you didn't become. And you can live in all the eras; the fact that you happened to be born in a certain place, in a certain dictate - the imagination doesn't accept these limitations.