Writing Quotes

Please think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day.

Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.

If you’re going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it’s better to write with collaborators.

You remind me of a poem I always wanted to write but never had the words to do so.

In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.

What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.

I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.

I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn’t believe the poems I’d bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.