Quotes about Expression

For a novelist, being 'too emotional' is often a good thing. The only thing you have to sell is your emotional experiences.

Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.

The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter.

You can never hold too much back because no one will ever really capture who the real Eva Marie is.

It's easier to make art for a society at a certain point in time with an understanding of what's going on.

If you tell a story that's only allegory, then it doesn't help you at all. If it doesn't bring some emotional charge, then it's just talking about something.

Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.

If I had had plastic surgery, I would have asked for something better than the face you are seeing! I actually really hate plastic surgery when it's just for aesthetics and anti-ageing. I think ageing is beautiful and expressive and characterful.

I have a call to speak, to write, to do sort of deep-heart surgery in people's lives.

I thought going in that I had to have this very broad, very palatable sensibility that works for everybody, but then the stuff that I'm the most proud of, and probably even got the most success from, was outwardly an expression of queerness or gayness. That's been a nice surprise.

political correctness jeopardizes more than it should the human capacity to speak the truth

The Word ought to be exposed in the words