Rakim Quotes

I do films because there is an audience out there. It doesn't matter if they're Indian, American, or European.

My music is for the world. Let them enjoy it.

Writing is not some quiet, closet act.

The act of writing means you wish to communicate. Whether you're writing a memoir for yourself you put in a drawer, or you write a poem and you send it to a little magazine, or you write for publication, it always means - the form follows function.

All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.

That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.

If I want to pursue the art of painting - or music or writing or sculpture - it requires only my time and a few dollars for materials. If, however, I want to produce a motion picture I have to go out and raise a million dollars!

The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.

I could compose and write music and get to share it with the masses and the people around the world and to have them to receive it so beautifully - I love that.

I write to discover what I know.

Writing is a holy chore.

I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn't write no one would want me to talk anyway.

Writing sucks. I think it's terrible. Writing is not fun, and don't trust anyone who claims to enjoy it. Liars!

I'd always loved movies, but it wasn't some sort of desperate love of celluloid. It was literally like, "I want to write things, and I want people to see them more."

Writing is not an exercise in excision, it's a journey into sound.

I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.

Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.

If you want to write for yourself, get a diary. If you want to write for your friends, get a blog. If you want to write for others...become an author.

I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest.

Writing is an act of cherishing... It is an act of love.

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.

Writing is an undertaking for the modest.

I write to find out what I'm talking about.

Writing is not chewing your nails and picking your teeth, but a matter of public interest.

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.