Quotes About Expression

Sometimes thoughts merely pass through a man's head without mishap, but sometimes they fall out of his mouth on the way through.

the trouble was he had nothing to say, but he loved saying it.

Silence is full of speech.

Dolores seems to dwell only just inside language, she makes sentences the way a potter works clay, squashing them any which way into shapes that please her.

Freedom would mean rest, artistic achievement, the intellectual fulfilment of my being.

Some drink to forget, I drink to remember. I drink in order to understand what I mean and to discover what I know. Under its benign influence all the stories and dramas which properly belong to the sphere of art are announced by me in conversation.

The love that dares not speak its name has never stopped talking.

My Voice grew faint through the Curtain of my Pain.

Is there not something more glorious about making music than making war?

He could not bear to part with his paintings because they were an aspect of his being.

The paintings were a history of his inward life, and he did not particularly care how they fared in the exterior world of change and decay.

Parliamentary prisoners were often sent to Coventry under armed guard; hence the familiar expression.

Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own.

Where do they come from, thoughts? Like wrens, out of the sky. They arrive. Noisy, hungry, perfectly themselves.

men in high collars who might—this

He held back nothing of himself in his effort to please his audience

That, child, is one of the glorious advantages to being a madman. I don't have to make sense. It's very liberating. You should try it sometime.

but unable to help himself, he said sulkily, "It's the smiling

Is not literature meant to speak of our being a thousand different kinds of things, at times creating even this diversity? If literature gives up this purpose, this duty, it renounces all claim to legitimacy. I am Hungarian. I I am Slovene. I am Serbian. You do not need literature for sentences like that. A bureaucrat will do, and a rubber stamp. A border guard. An Army.

When you added dialogue to your piece, I really understood how Amy [the character] felt." This is not so much praise as a causal statement—you did this [added dialogue], with this consequence [I understood how the character felt]. Causal process statements are at the heart of building agency.

You are being aimed at. You are the target of our words. You serve as targets. That is a metaphor. You serve as the target of our metaphors. You serve as metaphors. ["Offending the Audience"]

escribiendo por completo cada palabra, incluso los números, para alargar lo más posible el proceso de escribir, en el que se sentía seguro. (pág 53)

Vielleicht ist ein Schriftsteller in vielem weltfremd. Aber die menschliche Seele, für die ist seine manchmal kindliche Empfindlichkeit das große Auge" -Handke (Briefwechsel mit Unseld)

Wat ik ooit voor mezelf heb gedacht is niets; ik ben niet meer dan wat me gelukt is tegen jullie te zeggen.