Indira Gandhi Quotes

Writing is always harder than talking.

I'm not very articulate. The reason I write is because I don't talk.

One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.

I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am the most habitual extemporaneous speaker that I have ever known.

I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them say what they mean.

Language just gradually came in, one or two stressed words a time. Before then, I would just scream. I couldn't talk. I couldn't get my words out. So the only way I could tell someone what I wanted was to scream. If I didn't want to wear a hat, the only way I knew to communicate was screaming and throwing it on the floor.

If you can talk, you can write.

I realize that the wish to write in a new language derives from a kind of desperation.

I can communicate what I want to in Tamil, but I can't express myself in the language very well.

Any writer who has difficulty in writing is probably not onto his true subject, but wasting time with false, petty goals; as soon as you connect with your true subject you will write.

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.

I talk a lot in metaphors. I get my words out but sometimes they don't make sense.

Each book gets harder, each book gets harder and harder. I always feel like crying when I have to write.

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

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

I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

I enjoy writing. I enjoy communicating and connecting.

While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will.

Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.

It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own.

[Margot Hentoff] stopped [writing]. She decided that she had nothing more to say. And yet, every day, she has a whole lot to say, and I wish she'd write it down.

Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly.

Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn't sustain my interest.