Ishmael Reed Quotes

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

Ishmael Reed

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• Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • America
  • Present
  • Dark

• The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Writing
  • You
  • Quality

• They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Dream
  • Night
  • Day

• I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Procrastinator

• Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Beauty

• Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Writing
  • Democratic
  • Attitudes

• Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Man

• Tell your idea to whomever will listen, and you'll get valuable market feedback before writing a single line of code.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Writing
  • Single
  • Feedback

• When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Science

• Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that it's really been right alongside of it, and I've always been writing and playing and singing.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Life
  • Music
  • Writing

• I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Writing
  • Composer
  • Satisfying

• Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Imagination is an infinite resource that cannot be diminished by overuse or underuse.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Imagination

• I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I started writing my own things when I was about 8.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Writing

• I am perfectly capable of writing things about myself that one doesn't discuss in polite company, but I was raised by people who said you don't discuss politics, you don't discuss religion, and you certainly don't discuss people's sex lives.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • People
  • Writing
  • Sex

• I used to be opposed to collaboration, and that's probably why the music in the past wasn't as good. Writing with other people, especially the great writers that I've had the privilege to write with, it activates something in your mind that you wouldn't use alone.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Alone, without the looking-glass of another person’s presence, the mirrors of the imagination sometimes effect cunning distortions.

  

  Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Imagination
  • Presence
  • Mirrors

• I know many people said I couldn't go to China because it would be a step backwards in football terms, but I think anyone would at least consider such an offer.

  

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
  • People
  • Football

• Honor to the earth," the abbot said, "honor to the dead in the passing of the year; honor to the living, in the coming of the new. A Great Year passes tonight. A new one begins. Let the good that is old continue and let the rest perish.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Good
  • Great
  • Earth

• The real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Time
  • Real
  • Pretty

• I join all of you who are advocates telling others that they can improve their lives and the quality of their lives and others by taking a few moments, breathing, and allowing one's whole being to become a vessel for positivity.

  

  Queen Noor of Jordan
  • Moments
  • Quality

• Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

  

  Ishmael Reed
  • Writing
  • Imagination
  • Poetry