Quotes About Expression

Either I did away with that fear through writing, or in the course of writing, I discovered it was no longer so intrusive or threating. The bottom line is, it's gone.

Those who would rule with an iron fist always fear the free expression of opinions by those they would suppress.

The enemy of fear is creativity.

I've worn a dress at my wedding. I've worn 6-inch Louboutins. I've got no fear and no shame.

I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am afraid of writing and then I'm afraid of not writing.

'YOU AREN'T TALENTED' - it cuts right to the fear of every artist.

Fear of commitment lies behind the fear of writing.

I think I am more of a coward than anybody. It's a very weird feeling. The more I fear violence, the more I'm inclined to depict it in films.

I don't write out of fear. I write out of a strong urge to meet death on its own eternal terms, because the fact is that if you write as little as a page of prose-even bad prose-that is eternal.

That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.

I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people. It's a fear of failure, I guess.

There is no shame in confusion or fear. "There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. . . . It was the silence that betrayed us."

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.

I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

When one writes, there's the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear.

There's something about fear and aesthetic that go hand in hand.

As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear

Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky.

You need fear to create, to live.

Much more prevalent than physical fear is the fear of criticism, rejection, and verbal opposition.

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.

But I've always tried to make the best of fear, then, because without fears there's no art.

He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear. ~Jose Aracadio Segundo Buendia After the second banana slaughter