Self Articulation Quotes

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.

There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

I learned how to communicate and articulate myself from ballet. It's just insane to me, when they don't think of that as a part of our education.

The act of saying what you do helps shape you as an artist.

I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Like Summer Sisters comforted me just because I was like, okay things I've seen with my own eyes are not so terrible, and even though I knew adult gay people and had absolutely no issue with it. And I just couldn't articulate what made me so uncomfortable about the space that I shared with my friends becoming a sexual space. And it was very healing for me to read that, and feel like it was a part of other friendships, even fictional friendships I admire.

I think writing kind of burns out the flaming question. Sometimes it might feel like when you're living with certain paradoxes and they're unarticulated, you feel pressure to choose. I feel more comfortable living in the paradoxes that I've named and laid out, whereas when I started they might have felt like real agitations. At least I see them more clearly after having sketched them for myself and made a place to stand in relationship to them that felt okay enough to last through the course of a book.

You can put anything into words, except your own life.

A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer body.