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Black Writing Quotes & Sayings

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For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles. — Shane Black

Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach. — Robert Black

I looked inside my typewriter. There's a city in there. Black and grey columns and no inhabitants. — Helen Oyeyemi

Sean Black writes like a punch to the gut. — Jesse Kellerman

And besides, I'm not a writer. I don't go to coffeehouses and smoke, wear black, and analyze Sylvia Plath to the point of depression. — Megan McCafferty

It's amazing what I could've written in my life if I had realized that I should keep writing and not masturbating. — Lewis Black

When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman. — Alessandra Stanley

How do you paint a writer's block?
Just fill it with fifty shades of black. — Ana Claudia Antunes

I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody. — Mara Brock Akil

I think writing for anybody helps you order your life. It helps you arrange your emotions and your thoughts and it helps to provide perspective. — Michael Ian Black

The darkness has ink eyes, and if you stare long enough, you're going to see it blink black. That's the moment to start writing. — Jarod Kintz

When it comes to work, I will stop at nothing. When it comes to writing, I will never stop. — Robert Black

I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition
about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive. — Maya Angelou

When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit. — Maureen Dowd

No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much" ... No woman has ever written enough. — Bell Hooks

I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception. — Jimmy Carl Black

Writing is thinking and thinking is hard work. — Lewis Black

There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America. — August Wilson

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on. — Carl Sandburg

Writing is like a charcoal painting, a black and white story — Dave McDonald

I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people. — Maya Angelou

Whatever I write I publish. Because that's where the money is. — Michael Ian Black

I'm going to write about them as I took them -- with a smile. — Jack Black

Make your skin as thick as you are able to, for your career. Keep it as thin as you can tolerate, for your art. — Robin Black

Just tell the truth, and they'll accuse you of writing black humor. — Charles Willeford

I started writing because I got so frustrated that there weren't enough plays that had roles for young black women in them. — Katori Hall

You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more. — Holly Black

I have little or no concern at how people interpret my writing, my only concern is to write it. — Robert Black

I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices. — Lee Daniels

I never write anything down. I write onstage. — Lewis Black

I like how writing can take you off for a jaunt in your head and then set you back down in the chair where you've been all along. — Georgann Low

When I die I hope it may be said:
'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'. — Shannon L. Alder

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white. — Rebecca Solnit

The whistle dropped from the branch's spindly fingers like a black cocoon, a pendulum of secret music; the wind pushed sound soundlessly around. — Karen Russell

Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island. — Etty Hillesum

You wanted to show everyone you could write about the black heart of a killer. And all the while pretending you don't even have your own dark desires. — Naoyuki Ochiai

Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue and red ones. — Hermann Hesse

I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer! — Anne Sexton

....and on occasion I like to write in pencil, because I need to know that I can erase the words, even if I never do. — Bruce Black

Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain. — Shane Black

I write to create red in a world that often appears black and white. — Terry Tempest Williams

I'm an aspiring writer.' I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not. — Jake Black

Moral writing is boring. — Johan Van Wyk

Rejection is part of the game. Or rather, rejection is part of the profession. A profession which at times can feel like a game. — Robin Black

Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that. — A.S. Byatt

In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.
This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me. — N.K. Jemisin

By all means, tell the cops about the crazy robot lady with the black leather body suit and the Kill Bill sword. Hope you like straitjackets. — J.D. Cunegan

You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I'm speaking of life, not writing - is 'no humor too black.' — Elizabeth McCracken

The characters that I have on Twitter have very little resemblance to me, the person who's writing them. — Michael Ian Black

I use a lot of humor in my writing. But it's completely black humor. — Kurt Vile