Quotes About Expression

If the voice was meant to be silent we wouldn't have ears for listening.

Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman's terms).

Before the tears of the eyes dry outLet them sprinkle words on the paper Life is short and the man shall dieBut the words shall live on forever...

Writing is a lifelong disease. Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form to express your condition, in whatever construction to carry your words beyond you.

People keep asking me ...How to instantly become a better writer? It's simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself.

There is a weird power in a spoken word.

The tongue never rests. It speaks even when we sleep. It speaks through the mind even when the mouth keeps shut

When you sit alone and think out your thoughts … then that is your loudest cry!

Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger

Music is a second language to my heart.

When silence become silent, it speaks silently but loudly

Reading and writing dangerous books lets me be who I can't be and say what I can't say in everyday life.

No matter how banal the contents, there is always something that touches me. For someone now dead once thought these words significant enough to write them down.

A writer's tragedy: to know all the words and nothing else.

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer. And 'Wicked' was about harnessing all that strength.

I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people.

The best prayers have often more groans than words.

Sweat your prayers, dance your pain, and move on.

The making of art is no different than prayer.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

...True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length.

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

Writing is one of the most ancient forms of prayer. To write is to believe communication is possible that other people are good, that you can awaken their generosity and their desire to do better.

A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.