Quotes About Expression

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.

What a strange power there is in clothing.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

The wastepaper basket is the writer's best friend.

When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.

If you want to go public with your opinions, then someone is going to judge you a moron. And there is always a risk that you may be.

I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.

Music allows me to disconnect from my present reality, and communicate to my future wisdom.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

A world without music is just a world full of noises that don't make sense.

Ich sage kein einziges Wort. Mein Gesicht ist aus Glas und ich wünsche mir, dass sich jemand daran schneidet.

you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction

Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.

Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.

Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.

If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving...

Introverted feeling types have a wealth of warmth and enthusiasm, but they may not show it until they know someone well. They wear their warm side inside, like a fur-lined coat.

Extraverted thinkers tend to exaggerate for the sake of emphasis, and the victim will be too outraged by the unfair overstatement to pay attention to the part that is true.

It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them

It is not a bad idea to get into the habbit of writing one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.