Nikki Giovanni Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Believe, Writing, Spirit

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). “Sacred cows-- and other edibles”, William Morrow & Co

• 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

• Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean a lot to me, just interesting, so I both embrace and attack the ideas because I found them, well, delightful.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Reading, Writing, Mean

  Nikki Giovanni (1994). “Racism 101”, William Morrow & Co

• You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Writing, Over You, Brilliant

• Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Writing, Firsts, Language

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Writing, Thinking

  Source: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

• There is no such thing as writer's block. There is only not enough information. If you can't write, learn something.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Block, Writing, Information

  Source: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

• We all have our muses. My grandmother and my mother are the people I write for. I'll never have to worry about who buys my work, or who likes it, and who doesn't. The people who I want to be proud of me already are.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Mother, Writing, Worry

  Interview with Nicole Sealey, mosaicmagazine.org. September 6, 2013.

• Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Writing, Heart, Eye

  Interview with Nicole Sealey, mosaicmagazine.org. September 6, 2013.

• [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.

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