Quotes about Expression

I'm a big hip hop fan.

Really, I listen to more hip hop probably than most other things. That's where I get a lot of my influence from because it's so eclectic. So that's what I love.

I think my job is hopefully to connect with people emotionally and to feel less alone or understand things in a certain way.

What excites me, what attracts me, what gets me up in the morning is telling the next story and getting it out in front of readers and hoping they'll love it too.

We need to develop artists who are not just scoring films. I'm hoping 'Gully Boy' can help with that.

So whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.

She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.

Writing is a form of therapy… Sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation

The main characters in a novel must necessarily have some kinship to the author, they come out of his body as a child comes from the womb, then the umbilical cord is cut, and they grow into independence. The more the author knows of his own character the more he can distance himself from his invented characters and the more room they have to grow in.

The Church condemns violence, but it condemns indifference more harshly. Violence can be the expression of love, indifference never. One is an imperfection of charity, the other the perfection of egoism.

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.