expression Quotes

Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.

Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.

Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.