Agnes Repplier Quotes

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

Writing is a great love of mine.

To me, letters have always been a robust medium of sublimation. I don't remember what I was like before I learned my ABC's, but for as long as I can remember I have made them with my fingers and felt them in my bones.

I like to dabble in different things, but music is my first love. It connects to me in a way my side projects don't because it's so personal. I write the words. Music is like my diary. It's my therapy.

I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world.

I write to make some sense of things that confuse me. The mechanics of my own heart are the most confusing I know about - and don't know about - and other people's are a bit confusing, too.

I have a hard time expressing myself when I'm emotional, so my family has done this forever. We write each other letters if we're fighting or whatever. And my dad's a writer, but we write each other letters because we feel that it's easier to get out what you're truly saying if you write it down.

Self-expression is my goal, I want to be real with my feelings. Singing and dancing and all the joy that goes with performing come from my heart. If I can't feel it, I won't do it.

I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.

I definitely fall in love quickly, and I'm very in love with being in love. But it is hard for me to write about love.

There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.

People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are in the humor, you should take a peep at some of the letters written by people who lived long ago.

The deepest secret in our heart of hearts is that we are writing because we love the world.

There are no rules that say lawyers cannot write or speak from their heart. Passion has never been formally outlawed, although it is a little-known experience among most lawyers and nearly all academicians.

Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living.

In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.

As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.

Music is infinite and personal. I don't want to put myself in a box. I want to try everything and I'm trying everything. I'm really trying to write what's in my heart and what I feel without a lot of help in that department. It's about being brave.

Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.

Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

I've always expressed myself best through writing. I've gotten out all of my deepest feelings that way for as long as I can remember.

The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.

One of the things I like to do is people's hearts are on their sleeve, whether it's a good or a bad heart. And I think that's one of the things living in a world with Powers would do: it's too theatrical not to express yourself constantly. It would change them socially and sexually, everything would be altered because of superheroes.

Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Buddy! Trust your heart. You’re a deserving craftsman. It would never betray you. Good night. I’m feeling very much over-excited now, and a little dramatic, but I think I’d give almost anything on earth to see you writing a something, an anything, a poem, a tree, that was really and truly after your own heart.

As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.