Expression of Thoughts Quotes

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. That the speaking profits me, beyond any other effect....what I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid? ...Death on the other hand, is the final silence...my silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

I am never as clear about any matter as when I have finished writing about it.

Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn’t trade my life for the world.

Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.

Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.

If you have something to say and say nothing, you are really telling a lie.

Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It's the best.

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

Some men don't want their women to speak up, and then other men are attracted to that very thing. But as a woman, you don't want to be just window dressing. I've probably been unattractive to some men because I do say what I feel and what I think. You can be political about it, but I don't have a red flag. I don't have a mechanism in my head that prevents me from saying what I think, or if something upsets me or if I feel like I'm being degraded. I come from a family of very outspoken women. I can't imagine living in a time when you couldn't express what you felt.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.

It is extremely natural for us to desire to see such our thoughts put into the dress of words, without which indeed we can scarce have a clear and distinct idea of them our selves.

Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you can write it in the way of the exquisite nuance that is sriting in your mind now. But that takes a lot of ... waiting for the right word to come.

You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.

I don’t see why it matters what is written. Not when it’s about people. It can always be crossed out.

Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we know Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.

If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.

I don't think men talk as much as women, but when we have something on our minds we'll get it out.

Writing sucks. I think it's terrible. Writing is not fun, and don't trust anyone who claims to enjoy it. Liars!

It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage.

Feel provides an important channel of information.

For me, making a movie is kind of like vomiting. Not that film is like vomit, but more like this mass of ideas and thoughts that you have and just have to put them out there. It's not even about making perfect sense - it's more about making perfect nonsense. I don't do too much soul-searching or self-analysis. I just enjoy making things.