Quotes About Expression

When you write, bleed copiously from an open wound. Write from the depths of your heart.

A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories.

Reading is to an author as listening to music is to a composer. There's music in the words.

The irony of writing is that it's a solitary profession in which the lone writer tries to address universal human concerns.

If your fiction is good and true, your novel's ending will discover itself.

Tell me a story" is as old as humankind. It's a prehistoric request, going back to when people sat around fires in caves. A novelist's first goal, above all, is to tell a story.

Don't write for the market or for others. Write what you know, love and above all, write what you would love to read.

Writing novels is really all about making people think, and even more, making them feel things.

A good read is like dancing a tango with the author. You feel the music, give yourself over, move in unison to the music of words. ~ Mark Rubinstein

Ir you're a writer, reading is part of your job description. ~ Mark Rubinstein

If you're a writer, reading is part of your job description.

Reading is an apprenticeship to writing

A novel is the final common pathway of a writer's experiences, fears, wishes, thoughts, feelings & fantasies. All is distilled in a novel.

The first step in writing is reading.

In my view, the written word ignites the brain in ways that cannot be achieved by any other medium.

A writer's fiefdom is the entire world--everything seen, heard, felt & thought--all augmented by imagination.

Writing is an act of revelation--to one's self and the world.

As a writer, you write about the world as you see it, and about yourself in disguise.

A writer should not wait for inspiration; it won't come. Inspiration is fueled by the act of writing, by the sweat of the effort, by the work.

Writing brings the unanticipated act of self-discovery. Reading does, too, for one who's receptive.

If your writing is brutally honest, comes from the heart, beware, it will take its emotional toll. But, it's worth it.

Every writer has doubts. The only way to dispel them is to write.

Whatever art--writing, painting, sculpture, acting, dance, music, or any other--there will be frustration & travails. It's all worth it

You are what you read. You write what you are.