Nikki Giovanni Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Book, Chocolate, Good Book

• The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Book, Writing, Poet

• I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Book, Writing, Empathy

  Nikki Giovanni (1992). “Conversations with Nikki Giovanni”, p.139, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Storytelling is how history is passed. It's what our ancestors did, it's what everybody's done. It has to come back into a story because otherwise, it's stuck in this book and it's boring and it's academic and I'm not against intelligence and I'm not against education, I don't want to be misunderstood, but we have tell the stories to our young people a little bit early and history gives us a lot of things.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Book, People, Giving

  Interview with Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. April 2007.

• [To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Interview with Scholastic students, www.scholastic.com. 2002.

• Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Book, Heart, Years

  Source: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

• You're only as good as your last book.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Book, Lasts, Haircuts

• [My] Books are like puppies and children: you love each one for different reasons. I don't actually have a favorite because, if I were honest, I'm always more excited about what is coming.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Children, Book, Different

  "Nikki Giovanni - Celebrity Guest Author Interview". Interview with Cheryl Holloway, www.cherylholloway.net. February 14, 2014.

• I am a big fan of the electronic book. I hate to see the old bookstores close, but they have to reinvent themselves. I believe the First Edition bookstore will be the next thing. People will read electronically, then decide they want to own that book. The author will then be invited to the old bookstores to sign. I think books will always be with us, but they will fill a different need.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Hate, Book, Believe

  "Nikki Giovanni - Celebrity Guest Author Interview". Interview with Cheryl Holloway, www.cherylholloway.net. February 14, 2014.

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