Langston Hughes Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.

  Langston Hughes

  Home, Writing, Tonight

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.52, University of Missouri Press

• To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.

  Langston Hughes

  Book, Writing, Men

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.380, University of Missouri Press

• For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.

  Langston Hughes

  Writing, Worst, Best Poem

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes”, p.65, University of Missouri Press

• If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who's coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.

  Langston Hughes

  Girl, Art, Children

  Langston Hughes, Donna Sullivan Harper (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, p.77, University of Missouri Press

• I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.

  Langston Hughes

  Believe, Writing, Creative

  Langston Hughes (2015). “I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey”, p.122, Hill and Wang

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