1,068 Quotes About Writers-on-writing

Only when you allow yourself the right to die, do you give yourself permission to live.

Every Thought In Your Head Was Put There By A Writer

You should never write aboutwhat the world wants to read - instead, write about everything you want the world to read.

Like a poem passing across our eyesearly morning’s light documents the day.

I write when the heart speaks.

Your writing has to move you first before you expect it to move someone else. Write what you feel first. Then put it away for a while, and then look at it again with the eyes of a stranger. If you read what you had written earlier with the stranger’s eyes and say to yourself: “Wow! Did I write this?” Then someone else will also be wowed by it as well.

To me words are life. Words carry with them a strong creative force. A force that makes things happen.

I empty my mind. And do something else that is not related to what I am writing about. Sometimes I take long walks, and focus on being in the present. As I walk, I take note of the rise and fall of the land, the diverse faces of people, the roaming animals, and the sounds coming from cars and motorcycles. Most times when I do this ideas flow to me freely, clearing my imaginative inhibitors.

I most times don’t plan a poem in advance. Some poems, if I may use the expression, fall at my feet, almost fully formed. They are a few poems, however, that I do make plans to write in advance. And in order to write them I have to enter into a period of poetic gestation. A period in which I allow the idea of the poem to take root and grow within me until it is ready to be birthed. Sometimes the gestation period may take a few days. Sometimes it can take months or even years.