Quotes About Expression

So what? All writers are lunatics!

Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.

Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one.

It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.

It is only within the Christian doctrine of the triune God, as we are bound to believe, that we really have a concrete universal. In God's being there are no particulars not related to the universal and there is nothing universal that is not fully expressed in the particulars.

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth

We said a lot of things; we said nothing.

The only kind of questions he could answer were those that took "yes" or "no" for an answer — by shaking his head up and down or from side to side — and that limited them to about one out of every ten that they wanted to put to him. I saw red when I saw how helpless he was.

Instead of questioning him directly any more, they had him spell out what he wanted to say letter by letter, Deadpan pointing them out on the chart and Kane jotting them down on a piece of paper — providing Eddie nodded yes — until he had complete words and sentences made up out of them.

We write to taste life twice," Anaïs Nin said, "in the moment and in retrospection.

L'originalità assoluta non esiste; l'originalità relativa è l'unica alla quale possiamo aspirare. Ma all'interno di questa possibilità relativa c'è la nozione esatta di originalità, ovvero, ciò che conta è che la somma di tutte quelle influenze, quella specie di brodo culturale e vitale dal quale proviene uno scrittore, si traduce in una nuova apertura, in una nuova possibilità, in una nuova visione.

Most of the people you see going to work today are LARPing (live-action role playing) an incredibly boring RPG (role-playing game) called "professionalism" that requires them to alter their vocabulary, posture, eating habits, facial expressions--every detail all the way down to what they allow themselves to find funny.

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:To make a poet black, and bid him sing!

When I was a kid I didn't feel like I fit in because - this is really silly and I probably shouldn't say it, but, I didn't think anything was funny. So I used to go home and literally cry to my mom and my step-dad at the time and I didn't think anything was funny. I couldn't laugh.

The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.

I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.

She knew her artwork reflected a side of her personality she didn't typically let out. The side that wasn't completely concerned with getting everything right. In a way, art gave her a chance to play.

She lived on purpose -- like she used every color in the crayon box. The big box, too, with the built-in sharpener.

One of the more flexible words in the English language, art is defined as a human creative skill, doing something as a result of knowledge and practice. It is the mind's eye rendered in visual form.

I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.

If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there I said it!

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.