Writing James Baldwin Quotes

#1. He was one of those poets who escaped the terrors of writing by writing all the time.

James Baldwin

#2. He wanted to go home and lock his door and sleep. He was tired of the troubles of real people. He wanted to get back to the people he was inventing, whose troubles he could bear.

James Baldwin

#3. I don't know any writers who don't drink.

James Baldwin

#4. Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take to find dignity.

Bob Dylan

#5. If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you're not going to be a writer nothing I can say will help you. What you really need at the beginning is somebody to let you know that the effort is real.

James A. Baldwin

#6. You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.

James A. Baldwin

#7. There is something terribly radical about believing that one's own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write about and to perform

James A. Baldwin

#8. I am who I've been pretending to be my whole life.

Jarod Kintz

#9. I do a lot of rewriting. It's very painful.

James Baldwin

#10. One writes out of one thing only-one's own experience,

James A. Baldwin

#11. When you're writing, you're trying to find out something which you don't know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don't want to know, what you don't want to find out. But something forces you to anyway.

James A. Baldwin

#12. I wanted to be a pilot. I loved flying and I loved all the technology and the equipment and the sense of adventure that came with it. I think that feeling still bleeds over into everything I do today.

Graham Brown

#13. Five days a week my body is a temple; the other two, it's an amusement park.

Jerry Doyle

#14. Who is his manager? Milton Bradley.

Edge

#15. Writing is a political instrument.

James A. Baldwin

#16. Every writer has only one story to tell, and he has to find a way of telling it until the meaning becomes clearer and clearer, until the story becomes at once more narrow and larger, more and more precise, more and more reverberating.

James Baldwin