Nikki Giovanni Quotes about Writing

The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.

The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.

Book, Writing, Poet

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

Block, Writing, Information

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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.

Nikki Giovanni

Book, Writing, Empathy

Nikki Giovanni (1992). “Conversations with Nikki Giovanni”, p.139, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

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.

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

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

Nikki Giovanni

Writing, Thinking

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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.

Nikki Giovanni

Writing, Over You, Brilliant

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.

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

Nikki Giovanni

Writing, Firsts, Language

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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.

Nikki Giovanni

Book, Reading, Writing

Interview with Scholastic students, www.scholastic.com. 2002.

Nikki Giovanni Quotes about Writing

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