Quotes About Expression

Films are collections of dead pictures which are given artificial insemination.

The writer is just answering a series of unuttered questions.

What is meant to be heard is necessarily more direct in expression, and perhaps more boldly coloured, than what is meant for the reader.

A crowd of men stood in front of them. Of all ages, with expressions of sex-wonder in their eyes, gazing curiously as men who cannot solve a mystery that populates graveyards and through the ages has sent poets, popes, kings and fools to the junk heap.

I will be dead in five years' time, but while I am here, I will travel many highways and I will, of necessity, die at a time when my message of love, peace, and freedom can be shared with people all over the world.

Well, she's walking through the clouds, with a circus mind that's running wild.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel

Don't raise me up, I am but a messenger.

Music is a safe kind of high

Shoelaces are the first way society ties up the individual.

That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before you go.

She said 'a tattoo is a badge of validation'. But the truth of the matter is far more revealing. It's a permanent reminder of a temporary feeling.

For the first time, we recognized a medium that takes our ordinary, everyday objects like bowls, baskets, and quilts and elevates them to art forms that rival painting and sculpture in their impact. (From the forward to Crafts in America: Celebrating Two Centuries of Artists and Objects.

Defensiveness shuts down honesty and keeps truth from being expressed.

Thank you adult mittens, for allowing me to give people the finger without them knowing it.

But she did have to do something creative, even if it was just some little thing, because she was not writing, and not writing is hard work, almost as hard as writing.

Carla was wearing a No Fear sweatshirt. You are too old, Amy wanted to tell her, for legible clothing.

Without desire how is it possible to make a story?

I love playing bitches. There's a lot of bitch in every woman - a lot in every man.

I'm just telling you to live in [the world]. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it.

The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.

I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.

See enough and write it down, I tell myself, and then some morning when the world seems drained of wonder, some day when I am only going through the motions of doing what I am supposed to do... on that bankrupt morning I will simply open my notebook and there it will all be, a forgotten account with accumulated interest, paid passage back to the world out there...

As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs...The way I write is who I am, or have become...