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Expression Quotes
"Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud."
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"If you want people to dance to your tune, sing beautiful songs."
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"You exist only because God wills that you exist."
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"He said, it's rather like your voice. You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts. It's what distinguishes all great art from the other kind."
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"The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real."
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"Speak from the heart and feel your tension melt away."
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"He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language. (Jeanette Winterson on T.S.Eliot)"
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"Every word that I utter matters and this makes me speechless."
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"My friend Julie was cooking dinner in her kitchen one night. Her expression was blank as she stood alone working by herself. Her daughter walked in and gasped, "Mom! What's wrong? She said "Nothing. I'm fine. In response, her daughter added, "Then tell your face! You scared me! Emotional expressions can easily be misinterpreted when we are not aware of what people are seeing. Being deep in thought can look that way."
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"Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean."
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"A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book or his picture the real man delivers himself defenceless. No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind. No one can produce the most casual work without disclosing the innermost secrets of his soul."
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"There are poets,there are philosophers, there are spiritualists and me. I try to foot the bill of these mighty three."
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"A person whom writes begins by putting down what they know about loneliness, shame, love, and heartache. In writing fully, they discover many other aspects of themselves that they never suspected including doubts, beliefs, ironies, and farcicalities."
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"I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet."
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"That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said - one of the famous lady novelists - 'unhappy is the family that contains an author'?"
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"I'm very aware we are the first generation ever to have such incredible opportunities to express ourselves publicly to a worldwide audience."
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"He seemed like the sort to have a vast arsenal of smirks, shaped over a decade of nonverbal conversation."
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"It's amazing, the increase in grammatical errors in proportion to the level of hatred in the content of hate mail."
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"Wear your heart on your sleeve. Write about what you think and feel. And share it with your friends."
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"There is this certain rawness of soul that puts the polished ones on edge. Some of us just step out and the sunlight illuminates our bones, nerves, veins, cells! And that's just it, we're just like that! Then the others are tinted, polished, honed and well-contemplated; when they see you walk in and they can see all of your bones, even the tiniest ones, illuminated and outlined by the sunlight, it makes them feel shaded-in, it makes them feel hidden, it makes them turn their faces away. The way you bleed yourself all over the lines just makes it too uncomfortable for them, I guess."
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"Tell me what you like, tell me how you feel, tell me which stuff are your favourite, what you enjoy doing and so far I can give you one well written book based on this stuff!?"
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"Words have less substance than air. Don't tell me about your zealous dreams, your firm convictions, your profound love-show me."
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"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."
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"For a woman, every outfit is a hopeful spell, cast to influence the outcome of the day. An act of trying to predict your fate, like looking at your horoscope."
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"The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever."
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"The story comes, and it is pure story. That's all I set out to write. But I don't believe that we can write any kind of story without including, whether we intend to or not, our response to the world around us."
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"Never explain yourself to people, just make them feel you."
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"What we say has conversational value, what we do has true value for life."
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"Even if you can't dance, you can shake your body. Even if you can't sing, you can make some noise."
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"A dash of humor will only add intense gravity to the proceedings, even as a flash of lightning only makes midnight dreariness all the more impressive."
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"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent."
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"If words had cost money, Tom couldn't have used them more sparingly. The adjectives were purely descriptive, relating to form and colour, and were used to present the objects under consideration, not the young explorer's emotions. Yet through this austerity one felt the kindling imagination, the ardour and excitement of the boy, like the vibration in a voice when the speaker strives to conceal his emotion by using only the conventional phrases."
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"If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act-truth is always subversive."
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"My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see."
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"The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write."
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"I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives."
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"Once I have impounded love and towed it into the confine of words, I have lost it altogether."
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"You can write the most detailed, vivid description of an ax entering a skull, and nobody will say a word in protest. But if you write a similarly detailed description of a penis entering a vagina, you get letters from people saying they'll never read you again. What the hell? Penises entering vaginas bring a lot more joy into the world than axes entering skulls."
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"Oh... I just leave it......Words have as much weight as trying to jump from the 123333333334 Floor without a parachute and to be alive."
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"Write your sacred story."
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"ASK YOURSELF: Are your facial expressions in alignment with your true personality? Are they working on your behalf to project the best impression possible?"
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"My speak a language my heart knows how to respond to."
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"When i speak to youi speak as thoughi am offering a rosein your hand."
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"Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me."
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"The world is so big and words are so small!"
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"The misuse of language induces evil in the soul."
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"If you can weep with your words, the meaning of your heart can be written forever."
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"If you're to explain your works, then surely you have chosen wrong audience!"
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