Writing

Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist

Writing

"It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything."

Writing Book Recipes

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist

Writing

"When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness."

Writing Darkness Who I Am

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist

Writing

"I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing."

Thinking Writing Brother

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist

Writing

"I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'"

Writing Lord Angelou

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May Sarton Poet

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"poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing."

Writing Way Firsts

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May Sarton Poet

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"We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or work can-if we discipline ourselves and think hard enough-be turned to account, be made to yield further insight into what it is to be alive, to be a human being."

Thinking Writing Grief

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May Sarton Poet

Writing

"have the courage to write whatever your dream is for yourself."

Writing Dream Your Dreams

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May Sarton Poet

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"...I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except when I'm making love. Two things when you forget time, when nothing exists except the moment--the moment of writing, the moment of love. That perfect concentration is bliss."

Writing Two Sex

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May Sarton Poet

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"I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal."

Writing Written Universal

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May Sarton Poet

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"My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation."

Writing Character Feelings

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May Sarton Poet

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"I am furious at all the letters to answer, when all I want to do is think and write poems. ... I long for open time, with no obligations except toward the inner world and what is going on there."

Thinking Writing Long

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May Sarton Poet

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"If one is the kind of creature I am and wants to do the kind of writing I want to do, an undisturbed bourgeois existence with no distractions seems in order. A single meeting outside the family upsets one's whole inner web, makes one start off on two-days' thinking and weighing, destroys a delicate balance etc. etc. ... I now have enough friends to last me a lifetime and that is enough. I am going to close the doors and hibernate at least for a couple of years. I am frightfully depressed about my work. It seems to me perfectly mediocre."

Thinking Writing Couple

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May Sarton Poet

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"I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing a lot."

Writing Heart Lying

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist

Writing

"You never get over the fear of writing."

Writing Get Over

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist

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"I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name."

Writing Want Names

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist

Writing

"I also wear a hat or a very tightly pulled head tie when I write. I suppose I hope by doing that I will keep my brains from seeping out of my scalp and running in great gray blobs down my neck, into my ears, and over my face."

Writing Running Ties

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist

Writing

"I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people."

People Writing Black

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Mayer Hawthorne Singer-songwriter, Producer

Writing

"I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships."

Writing Song Rap

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Melissa McCarthy Actress, Comedian

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"Once you start writing a character visually, you're in trouble."

Writing Character Trouble

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Meryl Streep Actress, Producer

Writing

"Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me."

People Writing Enough

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