Maya Angelou Writer Quotes

#1. From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how tortuous it can be to be in possession of a unique voice.

Dirk Benedict

#2. The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make them bounce, turn them a certain way and make people get into a romantic mood; and another way, into a bellicose mood. I'm most happy to be a writer.

Maya Angelou

#3. I suppose a child's first obligation is to become a stranger to his parents.

Judith Kelman

#4. I certainly do not adore the writer's discipline. I have lost lovers, endangered friendships, and blundered into eccentricity, impelled by a concentration which usually is to be found only in the minds of people about to be executed in the next half hour.

Maya Angelou

#5. Of all the acts of man, repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults ... is to be conscious of none. (Thomas Carlyle)

Thomas Carlyle

#6. Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

Maya Angelou

#7. All the Christmases roll down toward the two-tongued sea, like a cold and headlong moon bundling down the sky that was our street; and they stop at the rim of the ice-edged, fish-freezing waves, and I plunge my hands in the snow and bring out whatever I can find.

Dylan Thomas

#8. 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.

Maya Angelou

#9. If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.

Maya Angelou

#10. I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

Maya Angelou

#11. Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.

Maya Angelou

#12. We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

Maya Angelou

#13. I think there is no doubt that the advent of 24/7 news channels, which are voracious in their demand for constant new content, has accelerated the political process. The rise of social media, in addition to talkback, I think has intensified the political process.

Tony Abbott

#14. I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.

Maya Angelou

#15. I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.

Maya Angelou

#16. When I try to describe myself to God I say, "Lord, remember me? Black? Female? Six-foot tall? The writer?" And I almost always get God's attention.

Maya Angelou

#17. I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.

Maya Angelou

#18. Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.

Samuel R. Delany