Quotes about Expression

Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.

Yelling is a form of publishing.

You can make them so small that they almost disappear, but I think headlights are also part of the face of a car.

I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.

Not all prayer is in words, because not all conversation is in words.

All metaphors limp.

All artists are mothers. To be an artist is to be a creator, whether of a symphony or a supper or a painting or a person. Motherhood is the primary art, the art of creating (procreating) people.

No man who bothers about originality will ever be original; whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence about how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. The principle runs through all life from top to bottom. Give up yourself, and you will find your real self.

You can't acquire a voice. Either you have it, or you don't.

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you'll be about what's going to happen to it, where it's going, what it sounds like, whether it's right.

I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.