Leandra Medine Quotes

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?

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.

Working with language requires beauty for me.

You can make anything by writing.

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

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

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.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

The pen is very quick for getting stuff from your brain to the page. I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe.

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

I saw a Shakespeare play when I was - I guess I was in junior high. And I just fell in love with the theater because, for me, it was a combination of big ideas and feeling.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say I had a good time using them.

I think of myself as a writer as much as I think of myself as a linguist and an academic. I really enjoy writing - playing with language and getting just the right metaphor.

What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man's soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.

Words are my life.

I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.