Quotes about Expression

A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

Prayer at its best is the expression of the total life, for all things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives

Riots are the voices of the unheard.

For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (i) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead; (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, once in a while, pride; and (3) it's frightening.

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity: nothing is better than simplicity.

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

I've got nothing against girls in tight sweaters - darn it!

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.