Quotes About Expression

I don't feel like I have the intelligence to really inhabit a consistently high level of prose.

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

I like to think I've written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.

We all have the same pallet of emotional paints. It is how we pigment them on the canvas of life that dictates our artistry.

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

Can a selfish egocentric jealous and unimaginative female write a damn thing worthwhile?

I better be honest about my feelings, even those involving loneliness, jealousy, and fear.

If she were any friendlier, she'd be giving you a lapdance right now.

If girls could spit venom, it'd be through their eyes.

Hello, luv, " he says through a thick curtain of blue hair. "Hope I'm...interrupting.

I look away so that my eyes don't betray the hurt I feel

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.

If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts of exquisite courtesy and kindness.

BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

Can you measure it? Can you express it in figures? Can you make a model of it? If not, your theory is apt to be based more upon imagination than upon knowledge.

I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.