Quotes About Expression

How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!

Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio.

A good mouth-filling oath.

Be thou the tenth Muse.

Polonius: What do you read, my lord?Hamlet: Words, words, words.

I must speak in passion, and I will do it in King Cambyses' vein.

A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy I were but little happy, if I could say how much.

Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.

The soul of this man is in his clothes.

Weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.

Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

Name the different types of laughter that are available to us and that's what life is all about.

Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.

The crown of literature is poetry.

We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.

There's an old saying that great writing is simple but not easy, and so it is. The search for that one plain but inobvious [SIC] word that will do the work of five, the agony of untangling a complex idea that has become a mess of phrases in the writer's mind, the willingness to keep doing it over and over again until it is right--all of that plus some luck yields prose so clear that it seems a child could have written it.

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

To do it artificially, to try to hype myself into being a better writer by doggedly reading better literature, is also a mistake. I learn to use the language by the pleasures it gives me when I am able to swim in it or maneuver in it or interchange in it with the people around me.

Sometimes from sorrow, for no reason, you sing. from "Cutting Loose

If you find it difficult to write, lower your standards.

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.