Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes

Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.

letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

Writing is a great love of mine.

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description.

If you can talk, you can write.

I try to write an essay every time I speak.

I'm a fan of writing, and writing letters, because I hate when I'm trying to get a thought out, and I can't.

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

Anyone who can not write should.

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

If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.

Writing is always harder than talking.

Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.

The act of writing means you wish to communicate. Whether you're writing a memoir for yourself you put in a drawer, or you write a poem and you send it to a little magazine, or you write for publication, it always means - the form follows function.

Everything starts with writing.

I enjoy writing. I enjoy communicating and connecting.

It doesn't need to be imagined, it needs to be written down.

Don't talk about it; write.

My mother sent me to speech classes, but the other kids still teased me. I was shy. I stooped. Instead of talking, I kept journals. That's where my love of words comes from. I majored in journalism.

I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way.

I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order they should be placed in an attempt to keep someone's attention and perhaps provide them with a laugh or two along the way.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.