Frank Ocean Quotes

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

What is writing but an expression of my own life?

With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out.

I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with publishing books. It can be totally separate and private - a comforting thought.

Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did.

I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.

We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.

I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain words at all. She thought that if I wrote something, I would use words I could pronounce. I began writing little poems. I began to write short stories, too.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.

I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.

I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me.

It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.

When I write, I don't think about messages for my readers.

I have always thought of myself as a writer, only because I need things to direct, and I can't not write the things that I direct.

No matter how long my day job hours were, I always made time to write. I wrote fiction, short stories, and poetry. I never shared it with anybody.

I was always writing for myself. I wrote what I needed to write and hear - that's what makes it powerful.

If I'm thinking or feeling something, I have to record it somewhere. If I don't, I worry the thought will be lost and I'll never get it back again. I never self-edit and I don't write in one place or in a special book.

For me, writing is just a means to an end. It gives me something to do on stage.

I always have a will to write. It's organic to me.

I've always felt an overwhelming need to get out what was inside. The vehicle for me was words on paper - not speech, not art, not dance, not anything else.

In real life, I'm not the center of attention; I'm in the back, and I listen. So when it comes to writing, I just let it all out.