Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out.
To protect the right of expression is the central part of an artist's activity... In China many essential rights are lacking, and I wanted to remind people of this.
I enjoyed entertaining people since I was a little girl. There was nothing better than making people laugh. That, and the need to express myself in a safe environment.
Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it some special immunity
This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.
Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.
If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.
The only truth is that we cannot speak the truth . The only acceptable viewpoint is that we cannot express a viewpoint.
Our thoughts are not roadblocks to our meditation, they are the divine expression of the universe and the building blocks of infinite possibilities available to us in every moment.
Love cannot come from where love is not. We cannot express love from within us for another if there is no love for ourselves within us.
You don't have to be a poet to express you feelings to her, just say whats in your mind and she will relate.
Irreverence towards women means denouncing your own existence. Respecting women is a way of expressing gratitude towards the universal source of creativity.
I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime.
You see people on the street yelling and think they're crazy, but maybe they're just happy and expressing what they feel at all times.
The subject may be crude and repulsive. Its expression is artistically modulated and balanced. This is style. This is art. This is the only thing that really matters in books.
By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: 'I like that' becomes 'I'm like that.'
Joining a sub-culture, any sub-culture, for whatever reason, is as I see it never a legitimate self-expression. It is always a result of sheep mentality; a wish to belong somewhere.
In most poetic expressions of patriotism, it is impossible to distinguish what is one of the greatest human virtues from the worst human vice, collective egotism.
In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.
