Writing Quotes

There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

I am not, at the end of the day, a mother, a wife, a writer, an activist, a friend. I am a child of God. That’s who I was when I came into this world and who I’ll be when I leave it. No one can take that from me.

In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.

What distinguishes Sun Tzu from Western writers on strategy is the emphasis on the psychological and political elements over the purely military.

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.

All writing is a form of prayer.

It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.

I spill words among pages so that I can’t say my thoughts are stuck in cages. Can’t say I didn’t let it out when I can say for sure I wrote it down.

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.