Month: January 2024

“I date all my work because I think poetry, or any writing, is but a reflection of the moment.” – Nikki Giovanni, Sacred Cows and Other Edibles

“If you find a lot of explaining necessary, something is wrong with your material or with your approach to it.” – James Gould Cozzens, Notebook

“In a way, I used up some of my loneliness by writing.” – Truman Capote

“The art of writing, like every other art, is simpler in practice than the books about it.” – Henry Seidal Canby, Better Writing

“You may write down in history, with your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt. But still, like dust, I’ll rise.” – Maya Angelou

“The truth is that the world’s great writers are apt to become the world’s great bores.” – Logan Pearsall Smith, On Reading Shakespeare

“The only thing I can pass on to a younger writer is that: read.” – Walter Percy, The Charlotte Observer

“A shallow mind thinks his writing divine; a man of sense imagines he writes tolerably well.”

“Rage is to writers what water is to fish.” – Nikki Giovanni, Sacred Cows and Other Edibles

“The writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of phantasy which he takes very seriously.” – Sigmund Freud, The Poet and Day-Dreaming