Quotes About Expression

writing stories, scenes, and portraits is a very inductive process and will lead you to new insights and new points of view you couldn't reach by reasoning alone.

Most people start shaping and revising what they have written once they get one pretty good idea. "Yes that's it, now I've figured out what I want to say." That's terrible. You shouldn't start revising till you have more good stuff than you can use. (And it won't take long to get it if you make your early writing into a free brainstorming session.) That way you'll have to be critical and throw away genuinely good stuff just to trim your piece down to the right length.

First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs.

I like a prayer book and liturgy to guide me in my faith rather than falling back into my comfort zone of controlling reality with my learned and carefully chosen words, and without leaving it up to me to come up with what to say here and now when I just may not feel like it.

We perceive God, think about God, and talk about God in ways that make sense to us by virtue of when and where we live.

Placeholder theology is the very nature of theology. By it we acknowledge the human need to say something about ultimate meaning concerning the Creator and the creation while also understanding that what we say will never say it all.

Is not literature meant to speak of our being a thousand different kinds of things, at times creating even this diversity? If literature gives up this purpose, this duty, it renounces all claim to legitimacy. I am Hungarian. I am Slovene. I am Serbian. You do not need literature for sentences like that. A bureaucrat will do, and a rubber stamp. A border guard. An Army.

Pick a gender and stick with it, guys.

Bollocks! Bollocks, bollocks.

Does it hurt?" "Fucking fuck!

Humans are so fascinating, aren't we? If ten of us are each given our own piano, we'll play eleven different tunes.

Cast aside your numbers and your coarse voice and learn how to sing, sweet Ozzie. Song is the destiny of all who live who love to live.

Joey almost smiled at how the spy chief's jaw muscles were working hard to keep his expression neutral.

He never did understand why people admired or even collected art. The greatest human artist could never hope to match what nature did with a single flower.

The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.

Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!" Her

Have you ever been writing something when you just forgot where you were, and what time it was, and you kept diving down deeper into your words? No, it's more like diving down through your words--past them, and way further down into someplace out. In fact, it doesn't matter whether you're naked or not, since the next thing is, you leave your body totally behind and just go off into your mind. A whole other part of your mind.

It's not her fault,' she said. 'Nobody knows how to grieve in this country. They don't make any noise. Nobody taught them how. I don't want to be that way.

Has it taught you to look at things different?' he asked. i thought, How does he know about all that? But i didn't have to ask him, because he just nodded toward his house. 'I bounce around them four walls a lot, Victor. I write some letters, I keep in touch with people. Putting your thoughts on paper, it makes you stop and notice stuff. Kind of slows you down.

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.

Siegel me contó que las emociones no surgen espontáneamente. Como sabe cualquier actor, tampoco se las puede invocar a voluntad. Las emociones hay que despertarlas. «Y

Being true to yourself involves showing and sharing emotion. The spirit that motivates most great storytellers is 'I want you to feel what I feel,' and the effective narrative is designed to make this happen. That's how the information is bound to the experience and rendered unforgettable.

and, in place of the body movements, wiggling his little finger lasciviously in a move that sent his audience into paroxysms of ecstasy.