Quotes About Expression

I'm fine." Oh, how we love and overuse fine, our all-purpose little evasion. Fine means not fine. Fine means Pity me. Fine means Don't ask.

It's both harder and easier without words.

Words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes.

Her look was easy to read—she couldn't understand, we'd always been able to talk, she was hurt. Mothers can give all of that to you in one brief look.

I like those very realistic paintings that look like photographs, or novels that are so much like actual life that you feel understood.

Knowing your full true story, telling your full true story, living your full true story--it seems like the most basic right of every human being.

read books—devouring them with the speed of two people famished for words, ideas, and beautiful sentences that make you feel everything.

Your hair is your helmet- wear it well.

Write the story. Don't write sentences.

Writing is my passion, not my job. I need to write as much as I need to breathe, if not more.

My mouth is not talking, my fingers are!

You know you are a writer when you talk about your characters as if they were real people!

The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

When we hear our souls speak, we are free.

Every painting tells a story.

Listen to yourself and you are heard.

You paint the picture of your surroundings. Paint it beautifully.

Sometimes writing is like playing with fire… like trying to tame an uncontrollable beast.

Writers are cut open on the page.

I can't sew, but I can spin one helluva yarn.

When we write, we discover answers, though the key is not in the discovery but in the timing of the implementation.

I think every writer has a little freak in 'em.

A true piece of writing sets you free.

I am free to write: therefore, I am free to be.