Quotes About Expression

Writing creates new people & worlds. When you read, you enter into new people & worlds. When you read and write, it's the best of all worlds.

Write fearlessly, from the heart; pour your guts out and don't give a damn about what anyone thinks.

I sometimes surprise myself when one of my characters says something I would never say.

Creativity isn't defined by word count, or the number of books one has published. A writer makes a commitment to stretch as far as possible, reaching for the music of words.

There are twenty-six letters in the alphabet. A writer's task is to arrange them into sentences telling a unique story with guts, heart & soul.

Writing is a way of remaking the world, both for the writer and reader.

The writing life is not for the timid. It's filled with challenge, uncertainty & frustration, but it's a beautiful, expansive & creative one

Reading is the never-ending apprenticeship for writing ~ Mark Rubinstein

The interaction between author and reader is the most intimate in the world of art. The reader's imagination shares and completes the writer's.

A writer has only three tools: language, experience and imagination.

Writing is the gateway to learning about one's self. Reading is the gateway to learning about the world.

A writer's downfall is chasing the marketplace. Doing that, you only see it's rear end. Write from the heart, not for the market.

When you really get down to it, good writing (or good art of any kind) taps deeply into feelings more than anything else.

A good novel is like a fairy tale, a movie, a play, a jazz piece & a symphony resonating in the mind, each in its own way.

A writer's most potent tools are the inner mind and the shameless courage to explore it.

The purpose of art is subversion. Art is telling the world how it's killing you. How its institutions have failed you. In the end, any culture worth damn is made by subversives. Because art is what tells the world it needs to change. Power merely redecorates it.

There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves.

My writing is how I maintain.

Our world cannot be complete without you, and without hearing what you have to say. True justice cannot exist without compassion; compassion cannot exist without understanding. But no one will understand you unless you speak, and are able to speak clearly (Sister Janet to the students, page 155).

Stop counting crayons, just draw pictures.

The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.

There's a perverse and bitter joy in feeling unique, but you pay dearly. Morrissey

integral yoga aims at "opening the springs of creative inspiration hidden in the human psyche" and the "active participation

This is the last time you'll read the phrase "his or her" or "he or she"; from this point on, I'll use one or the other pronoun and assume you understand that any sex could apply.