Quotes About Self-expression

Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I believe there is always exposure, vulnerability, in the writing process, which is not to say it is either confessional or memoir. Simply, it is real.

Can I? Can I speak my mind or am I dumb inside a borrowed language, captive of bastard thoughts? What of me is mine?

I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.

It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then the books themselves inform the sense of what I am. So the more I can be, the better the books will be.

It's why I am a writer...To avoid the narrow mesh of Mrs Winterson's story I had to be able to tell my own.

I had lines inside me-a string of guiding lights. I had language.

What is unconscious does not speak and that includes the hidden parts of himself.

How else could it be with such consuming hair?

If you can't survive in this world, you had better make a world of your own.

So what is it to be? Banality of convention or banality of individuation? Shall I choose society's clichés or my own? Is it a step forward to have understood that there is no real difference between them?

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

Daha iyi de?ilim belki, ama en az?ndan ba?kay?m.

Bitkilerle salt öÄŸretim üyesi ya da yazar olamk için uÄŸra??l?rsa, bu zevk yiter ve bitkiler art?ki tutkular?m?z için birer araçtan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey olmazlar; herkes, bilmek deÄŸil de bildiÄŸini göstermek kayg?s?na düÅŸer ve ormanlar?n ortas? bile, kendini beÄŸendirmek isteyenlerin beceri ve yetenek sahnesi durumunu al?r.

En vérité, je ne songeais guère à faire ni comme les autres ni autrement qu'eux. Je désirais sincèrement de faire ce qui était bien.

Such as I was, I have declared myself; sometimes vile and despicable, at others, virtuous, generous and sublime.

Life's too short to worry about what other people think,'' Mom said.''Anyway, they should accept us for who we are.

I'm a grown woman now," Mom said almost every morning. "Why can't I do what I want to do?

Don't be someone else's little cheerleader", Mom said. "Be the star of your own show. Even if there's no audience.

The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.

what summits would I not reach if my own life made the subject of the melody.

I've done so many independent movies I'm sure no one will ever see, but I've loved the work.

I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself.

I am in a key moment. I kind of understand that I have to use my work more completely without being ashamed.