Quotes About Expression

Writing is not just the technical act of your fingers on the keyboard. Writing is living.

The touch of chaos in the order - art required that.

Creative vision creates art"—he motioned around the gallery—"that shows the rest of the world a new angle. That's a beautiful thing.

Sometimes there's power in the act; sometimes there's strength in words

Do I look like someone who would make a duck face or do a fish gape?

I am involved with 'Write Girl ' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.

He focused on the inspector, instead, though she didn't want him watching her. But Rhys liked the way she looked, particularly when her expression suggested that she'd prefer to have a gun aimed at his head rather than sit across from him in a private railcar.

Tar had a reason, plenty of reasons. The latest were painted on his face, too.

People are always talking about love like it's something everyday. People say they love their parents, but what does that mean?

Once again we see not only additions to the English word-hoard but new ideas being introduced or current ideas being given a name – 'humanity', 'pollute', which then, as words often do, took on a larger and more complex life. New words are new worlds. You call them up and if they are strong enough, they keep in step with change and along the way describe more and more, provide new insights, evolve on the tongue and on the page.

In its easiness of grammatical construction, in its paucity of inflexion, in its almost total disregard of the distinctions of gender excepting those of nature, in the simplicity and precision of its terminations and auxiliary verbs, not less than the majesty, vigour and copiousness of its expression, our mother-tongue seems well adapted by organization to become the language of the world.

Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek: We write in sand, our language grows And like the tide, our work o'erflows.

Fart: to break wind behind. As when we gun discharge Although the bore be ne'er so large Before the flame the muzzle burst Just at the breech it flashes first; So from my lord his passion broke, He farted first and then he spoke.

There were over five hundred ways of spelling the word 'through' and over sixty of the pronoun 'she', which is quite hard to imagine.

As when we gun discharge Although the bore be ne'er so large Before the flame the muzzle burst Just at the breech it flashes first; So from my lord his passion broke, He farted first and then he spoke. [Swift]

Shakespeare shoved into bed together words that scarcely knew each other before, had never even been introduced.

English was the language of protest and protesting its right to be heard and taken account of before the highest in the land. And the highest of the land used it in 1381, to chop down the revolt of thousands of English speakers.

to lose any language is to lose a unique way of knowing life.

English was emerging from the tribal Babel as a resourceful tongue, but it had no great written language and without that it would be for ever condemned to the limbo of vernaculars all over the world whose attempt to live on by sound alone has often doomed them to insularity, then to irrelevance, finally to oblivion. Occasionally there is desperate resuscitation from a few survivors who know that to lose any language is to lose a unique way of knowing life. Only writing preserves a language.

Word endings fell away. Prepositions came in which took the language away from the Germanic and made it more English. Instead of adding a lump on the end of words, you could use 'to' or 'with'. 'I gave the dog to my daughter.' 'I cut the meat with my knife.' The order of words became important and prepositions became more common as signposts around sentences.

Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.

En tots els meus personatges hi ha característiques meves, però cap dels meus personatges no és jo.

Ploro perquè ploro.

Escribir bien cuesta. Por escribir bien entiendo decir con la máxima simplicidad las cosas esenciales.