Guy Kawasaki Quotes

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

I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.

It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

I can remember as a college student writing stories and novels, some of which ended up getting published and some that didn't. It was like my head was going to burst - there were so many things I wanted to write all at once. I had so many ideas, jammed up. It was like they just needed permission to come out.

I love the act of writing. I like the quiet, internal aspect of it. If I lost track of that, I couldn't direct the same way. I couldn't be a director for-hire; it's just not my nature.

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

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

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer.

To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description.

Creatively, it's great, because when you write your own movies, you get to create whatever you want.

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.

The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

At the end of the day, I want to be known for my ability to create life from words.

There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part.

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've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'

As authors, we know that it is very difficult to unleash one's creativity.

I'm constantly creating and writing.

We don't often talk about the fact that writing is all about rhythm. When you get too up in your head, you can lose a lot of your writing. Sometimes what a writer really needs to do is go dancing.