expression Quotes

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading.