Quotes About Expression

It's simple to love someone. But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.

Belle surprised me. "Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.

Well, it's simple to love someone,' she said. 'But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

Here's an alarming fact: of approximately eight hundred thousand words in the English language, we use about eight hundred on a regular basis. Those eight hundred words have fourteen thousand meanings. By division there are about seventeen meanings per word. In other words, we have a one-in-seventeen chance of being understood as we intended. Perhaps you've heard of Chisholm's Third Law—If you explain something so clearly that no one can misunderstand, someone will.

Writing is easy. All you have to do is sit down at the typewriter, cut open a vein, and bleed.

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His ears were so littered with studs, safety pins and dangling razor blades that if he were to stand between two strong magnets his face would peel off.

This is publishing, Kip! Since when does logic have anything to do with it?

I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.

No matter what you're going through, as long as you have some specific emotion, whether it's positive or negative, it is all stuff that you can use on stage.

I talk for a living, but it's still hard to talk about love, especially when it's officially mandated by the calendar. (Men, of course, think Valentine's Day is a woman-dated occasion.)

It's hard to talk about love because most of the time, we have no idea what we're talking about. We mutter; we fumble; we blush; we purchase plush toys. None of it makes sense.

I shall have twenty cats and talk to them all," she said, picking up the volume of poetry. "My cats and I shall have fish every day for dinner." Her imagination taking flight, she finished, dropping the book into the box, "And I shall memorize every line in this book and paint it in calligraphy on my living room walls.

The trouble is they don't write the lines I want to use any more.

You talk like winter rain.

For something to be beautiful it doesn't have to be pretty.

Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.

The difference between the communist and capitalist systems is that, although both give you a kick in the ass, in the communist system you have to applaud, while in the capitalist system you can scream. And I came here to scream.

Pero hoy, se decía Juan, todo el mundo necesita hablar. De alguna manera inconsciente (con un chiste, con una palabra o con un grito) la gente necesita resumir el año. El inventario no tiene que ser exhaustivo, pero es imprescindible. Reflejará lo que nos falta y por lo mismo nos alentará a buscarlo