Writing Quotes

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.

When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.

One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.

Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.

I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.

If the world cares about my poems, I need to take care of the poet.

I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.

Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.

I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.

All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.