Quotes about Expression

When the style is fully formed, if it has a sweet undersong, we call it beautiful, and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax.

I've put my genius into my life; I've only put my talent into my works.

As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear, pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

And unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are all wall-eyed.

Prose, in his experience, calls for many more words than poetry. There is no point in embarking on prose if one lacks confidence that one will be alive the next day to carry on with the task.

Truth is not spoken in anger.Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love.

Moer and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth in South Africa.

If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered dangerous but set in place in their compartmental understandings.

Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears...

I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life - This part is my part of the movie, let's hear yours.

I want to be like him. He's never hung-up, he goes every direction, he lets it all out, he knows time, he has nothing to do but rock back and forth. Man, he's the end! You see, if you go like him all the time you'll finally get it.

Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.