Quotes About Writing To Express Yourself

#1. First and foremost, I am me. I'm real. I don't write to impress. I write to express.

RaeBeth McGee-Buda

#2. A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates.

Kathy Acker

#3. I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

Annie Lennox

#4. I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.

Manika

#5. I'm definitely inspired by music; I feel like I can express a part of myself, a part of my heart and my soul, that I can't express just acting by writing music or singing music. It takes the emotions to another level. I feel really connected to something else, you know.

Laura Bell Bundy

#6. [I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#7. Writing reflects life and life is a mystery. All any of us can do is press the fleet footed beauty of life close to our flesh and use whatever instruments are within our grasp to express the evanescent spark of mysticism that resides within us.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#8. I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until I started listening to jazz, joined the choir and picked up a guitar that my little hobby became something far more serious.

Kimbra

#9. We can live quiet, apparently sedate lives if we express our wildness by risking and leaping in our writing...The strangest, most far-out renegade part of ourselves can be expressed in a poem while we sit quietly in our kitchen or bedroom. This can save our lives

Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge

#10. The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That is, he is perceptive, he is feeling, and he has the power to express in language what he observes and reacts to.

Lawrence Clark Powell

#11. To write a novel is to dream while awake, then express the dream to the reader in an absorbing way. The road leading from the writer's inner world to the readers' is paved with prose.

Alan Joshua

#12. Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.

Susan Sontag

#13. I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing.

Rebecca Ferguson

#14. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation.

Susan Cain

#15. If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Thornton Wilder

#16. Writing is a lifelong disease.

Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form to express your condition, in whatever construction to carry your words beyond you.

J.R. Tompkins

#17. Everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden.

Brenda Ueland

#18. I do feel like no matter what you're doing, whether it's music or writing a play or a poem or drawing a picture or painting something, that you're speaking to what is it you want to express, what is it you want to see.

J.J. Abrams

#19. The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.

Henry Adams

#20. I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

William Faulkner

#21. When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.

Sampha

#22. If you want to grow in writing songs that will express the wonders of God, immerse yourself in God.

Tim Hughes

#23. One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express ...

Marianne Moore

#24. Art was a way for me to express myself and for me to also escape because it was tough growing up as a child. We didn't have a lot of money. I was always creating. I was writing stories. I was doing comic books. I made my own universe.

Michelle Phan

#25. Attempting to express a person's objective reality and subjective state of mind with the written word is an endless task because writing alters our perception of reality and amends our mental equilibrium.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#26. The journals may give you an opportunity to express your feelings without inviting further tables.

David Patneaude

#27. I often fear to talk so occasionally I express my opinions and my love in writing.

Debasish Mridha

#28. I think that every decision I make in my life is based off of an emotion - and it definitely hurts me in some situations, and helps in some situations, like obviously writing and stuff is my favourite thing to do because I get to use all of my emotions and express them in that way.

Melanie Martinez

#29. I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing ... not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.

Langston Hughes

#30. The only thing that's helped me get through some really hard times was just being able to write and express - it's very cathartic for me. I'm hoping that, by writing and performing for other people, it affects them the same way.

Sharon Van Etten

#31. Learn to write by doing it. Read widely and wisely. Increase your word power. Find your own individual voice though practicing constantly. Go through the world with your eyes and ears open and learn to express that experience in words.

P.D. James

#32. Writing is a way of life. I do it because it's a way of experiencing the world, and trying to come to terms with it and understand it and express it and engage with it. And to me it's a natural extension of reading.

Emily Perkins

#33. The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of mediocrity must be satisfied. Amuse the people, be their clown, give them platitudes about which they can laugh, shadows of truth which they can hold as truths.

Aleksandar Hemon

#34. I find it hard to express myself when writing from the f - - - heart or the a - , or wherever. It's just like anything, it's (easier) when you get used to it, but I've not done it. I was just a singer in a band.

Liam Gallagher

#35. Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.

Brenda Ueland

#36. The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I have to do it through my music.

Ben Folds

#37. To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

Aristotle.

#38. We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.

Alexander Kluge

#39. Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

Confucius

#40. When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.

Jack Dorsey

#41. I really like to write, so I can just relax and think about things and realize things and then try to express it on my computer.

Krist Novoselic

#42. Writing songs helped me figure out how to communicate with other people. I finally figured out that if I could express something in a song, I could probably express it in my real life, too.

Sharon Van Etten

#43. I can gabble on now, but I couldn't when I was a kid, so I spent a lot of time in my own head on the moors by myself. It felt like writing was the right way to express myself.

Sarah Hall

#44. I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly

Ulysses S. Grant