Quotes by Writing Writing is hard - writing is the hardest. Aubrey Plaza hardhardestwriting I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't. Audre Lorde womenfearwriting I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there Audre Lorde writingneeds I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side Audre Lorde diversitywritinginspirational Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism. Audre Lorde circlesracismwriting For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it. Audre Lorde languagetruthwriting All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing. Audre Lorde breathingpainfulwriting Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical labor, the least material, and the one which can be done between shifts, in the hospital pantry, on the subway, and on scraps of surplus paper. ... poetry has been the major voice of poor, working class, and Colored women. A room of one's own may be a necessity for writing prose, but so are reams of paper, a typewriter, and plenty of time. Audre Lorde typewriterswritingart What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about. Audrey Flack writinginspirationalart People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and and say 'I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.' Audrey Hepburn differenceswritingbeautiful There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love. Audrey Niffenegger writingpregnancylove I like photography and writing and travel, so I have a lot of cerebral occupations. I am going to become a sailor and do a world tour on my yacht if I don't get any more work. Audrey Tautou photographywritingworld God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution. August Strindberg heartwritingbook What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them. August Strindberg skinswritingmen I write for myself and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there. August Wilson spacewritinggiving When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that in order to make art out of their dialogue I had to change it, make it into something different. Once I learned to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I let them start talking. August Wilson writingcharacterart The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is. August Wilson eloquenteditingwriting There's no reason why you can't say "August Wilson, playwright" even though all of my work, every single play, is about black Americans, about black American culture, about the black experience in America. I write about the black experience of men, or I write about black folks. That's who I am. In the same manner that Chekhov wrote about the Russians, I write about blacks. I couldn't do anything else. I wouldn't do anything else. August Wilson who-i-amwritingmen What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates your duty. And by writing about black people, you are not limiting yourself. The experiences of African-Americans are as wide open as God's closet. August Wilson artistresponsibilitywriting I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of the same cloth. That's who I am; that's who I write about. August Wilson cuttingwritingart«114115116117118119120121122123124»
