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Langston Hughes Quotes about Writing

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

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

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

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

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

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