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I don't write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am--though I am rather clever and well read as a matter of fact.

There are no lungs like the ones that breathe poetry.

I’m addicted to words. The only way to get my fix is to write and read.

Like a flower pressed flat and dried, we try to hold it still and say, this is exactly how it was the day I first saw it. But like the flower, the past cannot be trapped that way. It loses its fragrance and and its vitality, its fragility becomes brittleness and its colors fade. And when next you look on the flower, you know that it is not at all what you sought to capture, that that moment has fled forever.

In the very end, all we have left to atone for our faults are words.

Writing barely differs from Talking and Reading. It appoints your hand while they engage your mouth and eyes respectively. The trio need the mind to combine sensible words from a meaningful arrangement of the ‘simple’ A B C to Z.

By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You're sort of a predator, an invader of people.

Our feelings are best articulated with words.

I write so others might contemplate things that are out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel—to cause laughter and tears and anger at injustice. I write so the world will imagine and wonder at crazy, incredible truths. I write to have a tiny bit of influence on a universal conscience.

...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...

For what was it about books that once finished left the reader in a bit of a haze and made them reread the last few sentences in order to continue the ringing in their hearts a while longer, so as not to let the silence illumine the fact that reading, they had gained something — distance, a lesson, a companion, a new world — but now, after the last full stop, they had lost something palpable and felt a little emptier than before.

True authors don't write for fame or to make a name or money, they write to make impact

We write to rekindle the inner spirit.

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.

I do not mind sleepless night to be involved in reading.

I came up with a pen and tablet hoping to write an immortal short story, but I've been having a dreadful time with my heroine— I CAN'T make her behave as I want her to behave; so I've abandoned her for the moment, and am writing to you.

The road from ‘here’ to ‘there’ is a map yet to be written with the pen I hold in my hand.

Write from the heart. A book without a pulse is like a person without a spirit." Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications

You ought to stop everything and write the sacred-words as its flashes in your mind.

I write what the Holy Spirit put on my mind.

I write because sometimes I feel I cannot breathe...until I do.

Stories change the world.

Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Else they are likely going to move on to another book.

Every sword that was dripping the blood became a pen. Every word that was written in it became a poetry.

We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write.

Cliches are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.

To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.

Don’t let the world tell you who you are. You get up and you tell the world who you are.

Love is illiterate. Whether we write it big or small, we cannot read it. We might only guess. ( "I seek you" )

Reading sparks writing.

A poetess is not as selfishas you assume.After months of agonising over her marriage of words—the bride—and spaces—the groom,she knows that as soonas she has penned the poem,it’s yours to consume.So, without giving it a think,she blows on the inkand the letters fly awaylike dandelions on a windy day,landing on hands and lips, on hearts and hips.But more often than not,you can easily spotthem trodden and forgotten,becoming sodden and rotten.Yet, she will continue to makewhat’s others to takebecause selfishness is not the mark of a poetess.

You cannot prove your worth by bylines and busyness.

Every child ought to be educated.

Listen to what speaks to your heart.

Don't quit. It's very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it's very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can't get fired if you don't write, and most of the time you don't get rewarded if you do. But don't quit.

Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal.

I wake up to find magic, I seek dreams and I crave imagination. This is my creed.

It is said that if you want to change the world, take pen and write. I want to add that if you want to maintain that change, then be the ruler to rule the pen's lines. True rulers are true leaders; they maintain a change!

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.

Drink the ecstasy of life and write about it.

The feeling that the work is magnificent, and the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.

You can best write about your own experiences.

And who would dare write their own death into the script so that the rest of the characters in the tale might live? God of course.

Vulnerability has a strength of its own.

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.

Positive thoughts shape a positive world.

You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone!

She placed her hand on her chest and thought, 'So this is what the poets write about'.

Gonna pretend to be a deaf mute who knows no sign one day, meet a woman, and we'll write for the rest of our lives.

It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.

Be daring to push your ideas forward.

I only wish to read, think and write.

Be what the world needs.

Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yourself in the feeling of the water and to emerge anew.

To be able to influence Tanzanian literature and African literature, and sell our books in Tanzania as well as in our continent, we need to be committed to what we do. And what we do is writing. Write as much as you can. Read as much as you can. Use the library and the internet carefully for research and talk to people, about things that matter. To make a living from writing, and make people read again in Tanzania and Africa; we must write very well, very good stories.

We want life to make sense. If we don’t find meaning and orientation, we are bound to fabulate a living and invent an inspiring life story. When we write out a chosen script, we’ll have to make time to hunker down into attuning it to the hitches of the road map, time and again, with fractious patience. ( "Everybody his story" )

Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.