Quotes about Expression

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move.

He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear. Cash

That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at.

the listening part is afraid that there may not be time to say it. Dewey Dell - As I Lay Dying.

The work of the artist is to lift up people's hearts and help them endure.

He had a face like a nutcracker; a scrawny man of no particular age, with merry secretive eyes.

Father said you swallow like you had a fishbone in your throat...

It's a comfortable thing, music is.