“I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where the eyes, nose, and mouth are.” FeelsWritingTryingCharacterStoriesEyeFacesTermExpressionMouthsNosesThemePlotDiscussingStory Writing Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content beyond what you might find in a PG-rated movie – expressions of who likes whom, holding hands, and perhaps the occasional kiss. The idea that we should treat sexual orientation itself as an adults-only topic, however, is absurd. Non-heterosexual children exist. To pretend they do not, to fail to recognize that they have needs for support and validation like any child, would be bad teaching, bad writing, and bad citizenship.” NeedsShouldWritingMeanChildrenBookIdeasHandsMightWould BeLanguageSupportViolenceFailingTeachingMiddleExpressionKissingAdultsTreatsCommittedLikesAbsurdGradesAppropriateCitizenshipTopicsOccasionalOrientationValidationExplicitHolding HandsBad WritingBad Language Author:Rick Riordan
“Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been born yet. It's difficult.” WritingTryingDifficultBornExpressionOutdated Author:Agnes Denes
“Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.” ThinkingWritingWellsSoulFeelingsTogetherExpressionTasteWitGood FeelingWriting WellGood ThinkingThinking Good Author:Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
“Writing is an outward expression of instinctive insight that must be summoned from the vastly deep of our mysterious selves. Therefore, it cannot be taught; indeed, it cannot even be summoned; it can only be permitted.” WritingSelfTaughtExpressionInsightMysterious Author:William Hughes Mearns
“What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music?” ThinkingWritingYearsPlayHappensWaitingPiecesExpressionAnd LoveThirtySincereComposerThirty Years Author:Charles Mingus
“I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self expression.” WritingSelfChildhoodExpressionGreat LoveSelf ExpressionMusic LoveNew Experiences Author:Edgar Winter
“To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the interior form, the plan, the model. Look what remains after that! The drawing is three fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over my door to the atelier, I would write: School of drawing, and I'm certain that I would create painters.” IfsWritingLooksMeanDoeIdeasSchoolFormCertainThreeHalfPlansDoorsPaintingExpressionModelsDrawsRemainsDrawingPainterInteriors Author:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
“When you are in deep distress and cannot restrain some expression of it, sit down and write out a harsh letter venting your anger. But don't send it.” WritingMotivationalExpressionLettersDown AndDistressHarshVenting Author:Donald T. Phillips
“If instituted, the TPP's IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual and creative commons. If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you're ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.” IfsThinkingWritingWellsMightIndividualCreativeRightsExpressionOne DayIntellectualIllFarmsRegimesPublishIndividual RightsFree Expression Author:Julian Assange
“Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.” GivingWritingMeanPersonsHas BeensWealthCreativityCreativeExpressionBirdCookingDancingTime SpentCreative ExpressionBird Watching Author:Anne Lamott