Nikki Giovanni Quotes About Writing
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There is no such thing as writer's block. There is only not enough information. If you can't write, learn something.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.
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The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.
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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.
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[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.
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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.
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Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing.
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Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.
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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.
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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