If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.
Nikki Giovanni.
“I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops. ”
“the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.”
“and sometimes I sitdown at my typewriterand I thinknot of someonecause there isn't anyoneto thinkabout and i wonderis it worth it”
“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.”
“Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”
“I'm told by my young friends that experience is much more important than books. Of course Ben Franklin had something to say about experience and fools, but even Franklin thought that a fool would l...”
“If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!”
“You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped --”
“The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to another world.”
“I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day a novel should not be interrupted. ”
“Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.”
“I should be writing ...”
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”