Quotes About Expression

Victor asks us to find the moments of heat in the writing we have done, has us circle and isolate those words, and with them we write a poem. We read them out loud. There's one about an ashtray, a sequined dress, flour on a kitchen floor. Victor says something about each one. The feeling in the room is beautiful, wide open.

Then I understood how hard it is to re-create in words what you see and feel in your head. That's what I love about Bernhard in the book. He manages to simulate consciousness, and it's contagious because while you're reading it rubs off on you and your mind starts working like that for a while. I love that. That reverberation for me is what is most important about literature. Not themes or symbols or the rest of that crap they teach in high school.

Did love, she wondered, include this desperate yearning to present the world as truly beautiful to someone else?

You are in my stomach' was their most intimate expression of love

You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. Words aren't always the most reliable thing.

talking about characters in books is exciting and soothing to me at the same time.

I just find it extraordinary that you think you have something to say.

Brain ablaze. Feel like we are unearthing something and finding ourselves, knowing ourselves, stripping odd layers of our upbringing like old paint. Can't write about it fully yet. Don't understand it. I only know that when F leaves and B and I talk I feel like I am saying - and hearing - the first wholly honest words of my life.

Jag skriver inte för att jag tror att jag har något att säga. Jag skriver för att om jag inte gör det känns allt bara värre [karaktärens ord]

You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.

Gatan och husen med sina stora tomter blir alldeles suddiga. "Han bara sprängde mig i bitar. Jag vet inte ens var jag ska få tag i bultarna och skruvarna. Jag trodde alltid om det någon gång skulle bli så att jag inte höll tillbaka någonting utan blottade mitt hjärta ..." Resten lyckas jag bara få ur mig i form av ett kvidande. "Vilket jag gjorde. Jag gjorde det den här gången och det var ändå inte nog.

Han parkerar på min gata och vi hånglar lite till. Inget prat. Inga pussar. Kyssarna är långa och intima, som om vi berättar allt det vi behöver säga varandra på det här viset

WordsWorth. Darkness Visible

Don't you understand? There has to be a balance. A man can't be without power—it doesn't work like that. What was I going to do, write little books behind hers like a fucking echo? I needed something big. And this is big. Books on this thing will write themselves.

Is the good scientist allowed artistic license?

I think of all the people playing roles, getting further and further away from themselves, from what moves them, what stirs them all up inside.

Kay Boyle said once that a good story is both an allegory and a slice of life. Most writers are good at one, not the other. But you are doing both so beautifully here.

mind Nell was writing: —ornamentation of neck, wrists, fingers —paint on face only

No escribo porque tenga algo que contar. Escribo porque si no lo hago, todo empeora mucho más.

I don't write because I think I have something to say. I write because if I don't, everything feels even worse

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.

Music helps us to both articulate & express our emotions in a manner that's publicly acceptable.

Music is emotion set to rhythm and tone.