Quotes About Expression

Annie colors me in, makes me real.

Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.

Shit is another useful word. Also very common. For example, pleasantly surprised? You say 'No shit?' You think someone tells you tales, you scoff 'You're shitting me.' You find something you like very much, you exclaim 'That's good shit!

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.

I found I could not not let the words flow.

Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.

The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who can express profound ideas and emotions have ideas and emotions more profound than the rest of us. It isn't so. The ability to express is a special gift with a special craft to support it and is spread fairly equally among the profound, the shallow, and the mediocre.

Any requirements on what this paragon should look like?" Henry started walking backward again. "We took care of that by saying she has to smile a lot. All women are pretty when they smile.

He cast a glance at the heavy-metal posters on the walls. One was peeling off at a corner and another had been torn and taped back together. "Norm said I could take those down," Kenzie told him. "You don't like them?" he asked dryly.

He looked at himself in the mirror and frowned. He had a habit of running a hand into his hair when he was concentrating hard, which made it spike. Right now he resembled a pissed-off cockatoo

but her expression was

freeing one satin breast

In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show.

She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to her, and her fantastically accurate shot-placing was certainly a study in composition.

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.

All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land.

Conversation is the wall we build between ourselves and other people, too often with tired words like used and broken bottles which, catching the sunlight as they lie embedded in the wall, are mistaken for jewels.

Ug-g-Ug. Ohhh Ohh g. Ugg.

I matter. I fly lone, apart from the flock, on long journeys through storm and clear skies to another summer. Hear me!

Once you have become good at being a compliment detective, it's time to share some of your feelings with others. The following three-step formula will make it easy: (1) Be specific. (2) Say the person's name. (3) Follow up with a question.

Slut: a person who celebrates sexuality and erotic love with an open mind and an open heart.

I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.

No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention.