Pearl S. Buck Quotes

I think that art, and making music or comedy, is a way of positing yourself on the map and then trying to find other people out there with you.

Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater.

Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.

I think it's an okay thing to express yourself.

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.

Dancing is like - it's another way of communicating, no?

When I started writing poetry in my senior term of high school - I was sixteen - I felt in touch with a secret language. It gave me a sense of identity. I suddenly discovered I wasn't alone.

I'm busy communicating ideas.... I want you to know what I'm thinking. If you feel a connection, good. If you don't, fine.

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

I enjoy writing. I enjoy communicating and connecting.

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy.

We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.

No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music, it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely.

My puppets are far more liberated than I am. Ventriloquism is a useful way of expressing myself.

I feel like I have things to say. And that's what I'm looking forward to.

I choose to express myself.

All art to me is an empathetic act. Whoever's telling a story is trying to transfer emotion into someone else.

I can't imagine life without singing.

I guess trying to throw my body into the guitar is so natural for me that I don't even know how to explain it. I can't imagine life without it.

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

I'm trying to communicate here. I'm a communicator, I like to communicate, and if a million people buy it then we've touched a million people, if only 10 people buy it, then we've only touched 10, and that's important, because I'm satisfied with only 10. But, I love a million.

I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.