Writing Quotes

All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

I write most of my songs to beats. I play around on guitar, but not enough to where I can compose my own stuff or play solos. Can accompany myself cause most songs are, like, four chords.

I performed in high school for Black History Month at a talent show, but besides that, I didn’t have the resources to perform so I spent my time as a teenager writing music.

I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.

If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don’t do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet.

I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don’t discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that’s very telling.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.