Quotes About Expression

Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in writing for adults.

If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I'm sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don't do that, I've hamstrung the melody.

For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my "documentaries" were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

Personally I kept my feelings out of it and created a fantasy. That's the process of going through this world being beautiful.

Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife.

The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.

My recent drawings that personal ones aren't fashion-related. I sometimes sit and draw people on the bus, or some fantasy hybrid animal. You know, wherever the hand will lead.

If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.

I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people

I'm just writing what I know. I've never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading.

If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.

I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.

Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made with your own hand.

Writing is like running away. Running away to a place you made with your own hand.

Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made by your own hand.

He wondered fleetingly how many people who sat alone for hours as they scribbled their stories practiced talking about their work during their coffee breaks....

I didn't have a great grasp of what guys considered a "come hither" look, so maybe I gave him one. I'd thought it was a "leave me the hell alone" look, but who knew. ~ Lana from Moonlight

I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy and of horror.

I create neo-surreal gardens with my paint brush

He rubbed at his face, as if seeking to awaken the right words from muscle, blood and bone.

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.