Richard Wright Quotes

Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

I still believe in the power of the word, that words inspire.

Storytelling, in print or speech, needs vital energy.

I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.

I look at you and I write down what I hear.

Storytelling is what lights my fire.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.

We need a reason to speak but none to keep silent.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.

I see myself as a story teller.

I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.

You write alone, but you write hoping that there will be readers who will connect with what you write, and it's so wonderful and amazing - I can't even tell you - when that actually happens.

Everything has been said but not everyone has yet said it.

There's a voice in all of us, and you can only get expressive through words. There's a limit to what you can do without speaking.

I always had an interest in telling stories.

It's hard to tell writers, especially in movies, that words are secondary. Behavior is important.

Something people say about acting is that acting is listening. But I think that writing is listening, too. That you really have to listen to what are they saying and what they're communicating to you. And so, a lot of it is just getting stuff down.

I'm attracted to music made by people who let themselves be emotional. They really care about what they do, and we believe in what they say.

I feel like we have to fight for art.