Quotes About Expression

If you're hooked on the physical act of writing, there's a good chance of your hanging in there long enough to say what you were born to say.

I'm the messenger. I'm just really the messenger. Although I've been a very good messenger, let's face it, right? I've been a pretty good messenger.

You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.

I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.

It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.

Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman.

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.I'm not dismissing it.

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.

Good words quench more then a bucket of water.

I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.

Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting.

All that matters on the stage is good art.

What I do as an art form is try to make people feel good and if I do try to make them feel bad, it's for a reason. There's something I am trying to say.

I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really good people leave clues that help feed the human race. That's my aspiration.

Songwriting is like going to church. I'm connecting to something, and it's rewarding in really important ways. I don't need to share it with anyone to feel good about it.

Good writing is formed partly through plan and partly through accident.

It's my red hair that interferes with my good sense. All that color so close to my brain, it plum disorients me most days.

I'm not very good at playing piano, so I usually hit chords with my right hand. And those chords came, and I was just singing a little bit.

I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to the hearts of others.

Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.