Quotes About Expression

When I wrote to him, I wanted my letters to be sprightly, trivial, indifferent. In spite of myself, I imbued them with my love. I would have liked to make it seem powerful, sure of itself and sure of me, but I infused it, despite myself, with all my anxiety.

the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when I speak of them, my language, which is inspired by them, repeats the same poems in the same tone.

Faggots are the great immoralists.

Je hasarde une explication : écrire c'est le dernier recours quand on a trahi.

Divine was metamorphosed into one of those monsters that are painted on walls, for a customer murmured a magic word: 'homoseckshual

All diese Ratschläge, die ich Dir gebe, sind vergeblich und töricht. Niemand wird sie befolgen können. Aber ich wollte nichts anderes als: Bei Gelegenheit Deiner Kunst ein Gedicht schreiben, dessen Inbrunst Dir in die Wangen steigt. Es handelte sich darum, Dich zu entflammen, nicht Dich zu lehren." -Genet (Der Seiltänzer)

Un mâle qui en baise un autre est un double mâle

Ah those knock-out body fluids: blood, sperm, tears!

To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.

on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.

s'aimaient comme des gens libres. Vous me direz : « comme des bêtes » ; et puis après

on leur a coupé le bout de la langue pour qu'ils ne puissent plus chanter le cantique.

Un livre est un outil de liberté.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

All he had ever wanted was to tell—in the best possible words, arranged in the best possible order—the stories inside him.

The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we have to say: The oldest hath borne most; we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.'" Then

tragedy is suffering elevated into art, it's art that helps humans endure—and sometimes even transcend—their suffering. It's

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself — like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

Real acting is never personal.

While he has not, in my hearing, spoken the English language, he makes it perfectly plain that he understands it. And he uses his ears, tail, eyebrows, various rumbles and grunts, the slant of his great cold nose or a succession of heartrending sighs to get his meaning across.