Quotes About Expression

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.

No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.

Je crois que je vais me suicider sur facebook

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

I'd like to accept this on behalf of all the stories told and untold, the writers heard and unheard, from the remarkable continent I'm part of. Please keep listening to us, there's a lot more to come.

The idea that writers write books that have absolutely nothing to do with their personalities or lives, I think, is false. Your raw material is yourself. There is nothing else to draw on.

Her own voice sounds echoey, as if somebody else is speaking.

Being a writer of 'literary fiction' means going on and on about something long after the reader has gotten the idea. ...Dan Ahearn

I write because I read. I imagine many of us are this way, bewildered in the tangle of these activities: writing to understand how better to read, reading to understand how better to write."-Dan Beachy-Quick

Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government's facade of infallibility, and you remove its people's faith.

Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.

Organized religion is horseshit. Spirituality -- the spirituality that I've come to know and experience -- has nothing to do with religion. Were it not for my relationship with a God of my experience I would be dead. Actually I did die. Now I'm this other guy with a pencil in one hand and a bullhorn in the other.

no wonder i let queers suck my cock

Being pretentious is rarely harmful to anyone. Accusing others of it is. You can use the word "pretentious" as a weapon with which to bludgeon other people's creative efforts, but in shutting them down the accusation will shatter in your hand and out will bleed your own insecurities, prejudices, and unquestioned assumptions.

I think that someone should do a version of Die Hard in heroic couplets.

I don't want to be a chicken. I don't want to be a duck. So I shake my butt.

The girl was wearing a backward baseball cap and a black T-shirt that said LED ZEPPELIN on it. "Yo!" she said as she hopped off her skateboard. "They told me I was supposed to be in Mr. Granite's class. Are you Mr. Granite?" "Yes," Mr. Granite replied. "Who are you?" "My name is A.J.," the girl said, "and I hate school." WHAT?!

Rhyme?" she said. "Is it a crime to talk in rhyme? I'd rather mime, but that takes more time.

I can't read lips.

What is it?" Dr. McDonald said angrily. There

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

A.J.!" Miss Daisy said with her mean face. "Hold your tongue!" "Okay." So I stuck out my tongue and held onto it. Everybody laughed. Well, everybody but Emily and Miss Daisy.

I'm going to finger paint a picture of a tree falling in a forest and crushing a family of happy butterflies until they are dead

The three of us got up and shook our butts at the class.