Quotes About Expression

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is: Why did other people stop?

Did you ever see anybody so disgusting: said lightning to thunder, "never," growled thunder, "let's give him the works.

Etymologically, the word time comes from tide—an ancient reference to the lunar cycle still retained in such expressions as "yuletide" and "good tidings.

Too commonly sex does not have the dignity of a sacramental event because sex is thought to be the means of the search for self rather than the expression and communication of one who has already found himself, and is free from resort to sex in the frantic pursuit of his own identity.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

Let's face it, writing is hell.

She could do to me with one eyebrow what two weeks without water can do to a plant.

Sadece roman duygu sömürüsü yapmadan anlatabilir.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

Art is the effort to appreciate and express the God who is its Beauty.

I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can't write unless you read.

The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place in society because society is what we're watching, and dealing with.

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.

I have never believed in the axiom that a writer should first and foremost write about what he knows. I think it's a piece of misinformation.

It should be an explosion of truth. Its strength lies in what it leaves out just as much as what it puts in, if not more.

Dance like nobody's watching Love like you've never been hurt Sing like nobody's listening Live like it's heaven on earth

childlike intuition, free play, and body movement were integral to his creative thinking.

Fura, hogy egy süket ember éppen énekes kanárit tenyésszen. Beethovenre emlékeztet.

In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.

Some might say that one's faith is a private matter and should not be spoken of so publicly. They might assert this in public, but what do they really think in their hearts? The fact is, those who say such things usually don't even have a concern for faith in the privacy of their interior lives.

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.