Rachel Corrie Quotes

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

I look at you and I write down what I hear.

I have no message.

If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.

It’s not what you say; it’s what people hear.

Humans are fascinated with communication. I was always drawn to words and stories, staying in touch with your feelings and being open to what's around you.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.

I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.

If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.

I'm here to make sense.

It's technically extremely difficult to get down what you really mean, not what you think you mean, or what you think sounds good, but what's really there, what you really have to express, in words that somehow convey that meaning in an approximate way.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description.

Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.

It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

For me, trying to articulate the world to help people see it in a way they haven't seen it before is hugely important. Sometimes, you have to take something that is completely inexplicable and say, 'Look, here is the beating heart of something you must understand.'

I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.