Quotes About Self-expression

If there's a better book than this, I haven't written it.

Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one person: himself.

People (even Americans) often find it difficult to talk about themselves.  Poetry gives them a kind of verbal costume in which they can express themselves with more dignity and confidence than the common dress of everyday speech will allow.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right — as right as you can, anyway — it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it.

Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction can be difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.

If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all. I'm not editorializing, just trying to give you the facts as I see them.

Writing may be masturbatory, but God forbid it should be an act off autocannibalism.

Who you love shouldn't describe who you are..And who you love is your choice.

You were born an original. Don't die a copy.

If I had succumbed to peer pressure I would still be trolloping about society as a male and probably have just offed myself by now.

Forget being like someone else.You are not a copy.You are a one of a kind MASTERPIECE.Realize this and become who you are.Your like will never come this way again.Only you can be you!

No matter who you are, or what side of the tracks society thinks you are from, if you wake up wanting to write, then do what you must to write.

Do not let anyone else's expectations direct the course of your life. I have discovered happiness in being true to who I am.

You do not need permission to be you. Just be your authentic, brilliant, one-soul-only self. You are a marvel. Act like it!

Shall you live authentically who you are or will you spend your allotted living the life of someone you imagine your self to be?

I figure the more people think I'm just mildly weird, the less likely they are to know how weird I really am.

Don't live your life like a movie. Always thinkin you could've been something. Don't live your life for me or for anyone. You live your life as if you're one.

At what point do they believe what's been branded on their skin instead of just knowing who they are on the inside.

Life is not a popularity contest.

Life becomes much more easier when we do what we say and when we say what we do. Having courage to be ourselves is a gateway to freedom and happiness.

Reflect who you truly are even when people try to tempt you to reflect the wrong image of yourself.

My identity is not it, which given by the community. my identity is my natural mask.

You have two choices in life...Choice one is to be the same and be like everyone else...Choice two is to be yourself and be a difference-maker.

We are living in the Selfie Society of Me.