Writing Quotes

Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it’s hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.

He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

Writing wasn’t just a form of expression. It was a form of pathology by embarking on spoken word over and over and over again and reciting my poems.

I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.

What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.

Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.

Sometimes tears carry the same weight as words.

I hate writing about personal stuff. I don’t have a Facebook page. I don’t use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don’t use them.

Writing anything is a treason of sorts.