Writing Quotes

Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how to pray in the streets or in the country. Know how to meditate not only when you have a book in your hand but when you are waiting for a bus or riding in a train.

He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.

You meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you’ve been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: ‘Write this down’

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman are exact.

Music is my passion so I feel like I’ll be doing this for a long time and God forbid if anything happens I’ll still write music.

The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?

I always have a Sharpie, because usually when someone asks me for an autograph, they don’t have a pen. I carry one in my purse, as well as in my tennis bag.

Actually I’m writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.

When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?

Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.