Writing Quotes

We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.

I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.

You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It’s really important to start writing young.

How to be a poet – call yourself one and pick up a pen.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they’d word something or how they’d inflect it.

Writing has to support itself.

In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn’t have a unique perspective.

I’ve always written songs for the sake of my own sanity and expression.

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.