Maya Angelou Quotes

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer.

Writers are the ones who figure out how to put their observations into words.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

Words are my life.

All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.

I love writing different things.

If you can talk, you can write.

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

Through writing, one experiences something different to what one experiences with the five senses one has because language is a different metier.

I think writing is a glorious and noble thing.

I know a lot about words. I get paid to write stories, so I get to talk with people about the meaning behind words all day.

Some people read. I like to put words together.

All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak words. They say, "How are you" or "I'm not feeling well" all over the world. These common words - these common elements that we have between us - the writer has to take some verbs and nouns and pronouns and adjectives and adverbs and arrange them in a way that sound fresh.

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

...words are in a way our godly sharing in the work of creation, and the speaking and writing of words is at once the most human and the most holy business we engage in.

You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist.

Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of the world.

A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.

Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

To write you have to be able to know how to put words together.