Quotes About Expression

Vigorous writing is concise.

All gardening is landscape painting.

You don't have to speak much if you speak well," Meloux replied.

Vox populi," Belle says. "The voice of the people.

When she sang she could make people laugh or dance or fall in love or go to war.

Whatever cracks were already there the war forced apart, and what we might otherwise have kept inside came spilling out.

with hand-painted flowers.

And Celia, once she began, talked in a line no straighter than a sloppy drunk could have walked.

We tell stories to talk out the trouble in our lives, trouble otherwise so often so unspeakable. It is one of our main ways of making our lives sensible. Trying to live without stories can make us crazy. They help us recognize what we believe to be most valuable in the world, and help us identify what we hold demonic.

Writing is magic for those willing to follow their imagination to a region where anything is possible.

This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying.

He yearned for the words. It was an affliction, this constant clutching for words. It felt as if he had been excluded from a conversation.

Sex is never between the lines. Between the sheets, yes, but not between the lines.

I looked at the jury, raised an eyebrow. I work on that in the mirror at home, the one raised eyebrow. It should be a course of its own in law school. You sort of have to relax one half of your face, contract the muscles on the other, all while keeping a sweetly sardonic expression. You do it wrong, you look like you just ate bad jalapeño. You do it right, it denotes skepticism, it denotes shared knowledge, it was as good as shouting to the jury.

Words penetrated the tank from the outer room. They were tantalizing, like those ghosts of meaning in a great symphonyhinting that the composer had caught a glimpse of something notes could only vaguely convey and words could never even approach.

There are thousands of thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen and writes.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.

She just went on eating her apple, shaking her head, and looking us over with that calculating, almost contemptuous, look she has at certain times." "Oh, I know! I know!" said Christine. "I've seen that look so many times!

Take thy plastic spade, It is thy pencil; take thy seeds, thy plants, They are thy colours.

I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen, and so I swung into action and wrote a poem, and it was miserable, for that's how I thought poetry worked: you digested experience and shat literature. [from "Mingus at the Showplace"]

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

His face looked like an argument you couldn't win.

I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else in the English language," Hunter wrote. "I love the wild power of the language and the purity of the madness that governs it and makes it music.

Hunter Thompson wrote suicide notes all his life.