Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes

I'm a writer more than I am a talker.

I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.

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.

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

Writing is a great love of mine.

My parents are creative on many fronts, and they pushed me to be that way, too. They wanted me to write, actually.

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

I'm not the most talkative guy in the world.

When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.

I love to write.

Writing is a very easy way for me to express myself. When I was still at school, I would write for no reason other than I wanted to write.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.

Writing gave me the world.

When I was young, I drew as often as I wrote.

I never really necessarily liked being quiet.

I like writing.

I was always writing. I've always been attracted to words and stories, communication.

I'm not much of a talker. When I do talk, it takes a lot for it to come out.

Writing is more important than being a writer.

People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.

How well I would write if I were not here!

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.

... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.