All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

I started writing 'Leaves Of Grass' when my professional life was falling apart somewhat. I just had a movie implode in pre-production. And so…

— Tim Blake Nelson

I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make…

— Brian Evenson

“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every long word…

— William Zinsser

There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are,…

— Jessamyn West

“nothing will be left on the table that is unexpressed by the True Self. And”

— Paul Selig

There is a wealth of unexpressed love in the world.

— Arthur Hopkins

“There was within him a deep unexpressed conviction that all would be well, but that one must not trust to this and still less…

— Leo Tolstoy

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

— Sigmund Freud

Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.

— David Nicholls

Love unexpressed now may never be expressed later

— Anonymous

“Art gives those unexpressed parts of ourselves permission to be felt and spoken.”

— Jaeda DeWalt

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

— Robert Breault

Somehow we always say the least to those we love eternally and hope our thoughts will be understood although they are unexpressed

— Anonymous

There is a wealth of unexpressed love in the world. It is one of the chief causes of sorrow evoked by death: what might…

— Arthur Hopkins

The unexpressed is always of greater value than the expressed.

— Zona Gale