Quotes About Expression

I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

Nothing wrong with making money or doing what you need to do to sell, but I think it shows when you're writing something to pay the bills and when you're writing something because it's really your version of the world.

I might have some sort of personality disorder. I might not have proper filters; it might be some kind of version of Asperger's meets Tourettes meets prose.

I stop suddenly: there is a flaw, I have seen a word pierce through the web of sensations. I suppose that this word will soon take the place of several images I love.

Totul mi-a p?rut simplu: a scrie înseamn? s? sporeÈ™ti cu o perl? colierul Muzelor, s? laÈ™i posterit??ii amintirea unei vieÈ›i exemplare, s? aperi poporul contra lui însuÈ™i È™i contra duÈ™manilor lui, s? atragi oamenilor printr-o Slujb? solemn? binecuvântarea cerului. Nu-mi veni ideea c? se poate scrie pentru a fi citit.

Écrire, c'est faire appel au lecteur pour qu'il fasse passer à l'existence objective le dévoilement que j'ai entrepris par le moyen du langage.

Four lines on a white paper, a splash of blood, together that makes a beautiful memory.

Ich möchte Ihnen so viel sagen, aber ich bin ausgeleert, sobald ich zu sprechen anfange. Alles ist wie weggeblasen. Sehen Sie: ich finde Sie schön, zum Beispiel; aber ich kann mich nicht wirklich darüber freuen. Es ist, als ob mir etwas fehlte ... (S. 64).

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

Chaque parole a des retentissements. Chaque silence aussi.

Sentences live—they reach out, they move and breathe.

When you say a word—negative or positive—you release powerful forces. Every word you say has power. There is no such thing as a powerless word. —Marianne Williamson I

writing is performance.

We must have the courage to write those first words, stringing them together and perhaps stumbling, but staying in motion.

In writing, authors use modes to make meaning and clarity.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. —Stephen King

Metaphors Be With You

Not everything we write will be great. That's natural.

Writing is not about impressing; it is about expressing.

And what I want people to get from music? Whatever they want. You know, whatever they like. Somebody asked me what I wanted to do, and I just said I wanted to give back to what it's given me. And meet all the people that are doing it; just to be in the world, really.

There is no threat to you in the paper, or in the pen, there's no threat in your creation, they welcome you.

You know how much is inside you and you have ideas of how to get it out into the open. Tap the source and let it flow and don't waste a drop by taking it for granted.

In speech, the speaker and the listener have to be present in at least two senses:- A Present to the words in a spatial sense B Present at a particular moment in time in which the words are uttered. Therefore it seems that the speakers' thoughts are as close as possible to their words. The thoughts are present to the words. So speech offers the most direct access to consciousness. The voice can seem to be consciousness itself.

I smiled at her, my most comforting, challenging, I'm-not-really-a-shark smile.