Write Quotes

When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the ‘National Geographic’ covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people.

I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.

Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.

For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: “Even if you put me in prison, I will keep on writing in the language which made you put me in prison.”

If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.

Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.

It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.

The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.

You don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.