Quotes About Expression

And as we stray further from love we multiply the words, words and sentences so long and orderly. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.

People tend to suppress that which they cannot express.

To make some sense of life –to prevent ourselves from going mad– we have one ready means of escape, and that is to dance while we can.

Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.

Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.

It's better to dance than to march through life.

We've been filled with great treasure for one purpose: to be spilled.

Art is my life and my life is art.

Art is a way of survival.

I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.

Ich fand nirgendwo so viel Kindheit wie in der Deutschen Sprache. Schmatzen, schnaufen, schluchzen, schlürfen: Viele deutsche Wörter klingen wie Onomatopoesie. Für die Neugeborenen klingt vielleicht jede Sprache so wie Deutsch für mich.

Writers are engineers of human souls.

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.

Perhaps sex isn't of the body at all. Perhaps it is a function of language.

You're a library of me.

That girl,' tutted Alsana as her front door slammed, 'swallowed an encyclopedia and a gutter at the same time.

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers do not write what they want, they write what they can.

Writing exists (for me) at the intersection of three precarious, uncertain elements: language, the world, the self. The first is never wholly mine; the second I can only ever know in a partial sense; the third is a malleable and improvised response to the previous two.

You say you want to talk, But you don't . You stonewall me.

I did come out with two invaluable intimations. Talking to yourself can be useful. And writing means being overheard.

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

You can feel bad... I mean, that's not illegal.

Don't romanticise your 'vocation'. You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle'. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Archie says -Science- the same way he says -Modern-, as if someone has lent him the words and made him swear not to break them.