Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to ourselves
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, commit it to my memory only to disappear when I needed it. Write your ideas as they come, if you wait it will be too long and you may not recover it. It may get destroyed as it is to seed to and fro in the ever rushing river of our thoughts
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
If you are afraid of the critics you will never write a word
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
You never know what you will write until you write it
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Write it as you see in your own perspective, you may be right or wrong but then what, that's how you see it
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
You cannot write if you are not angry
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
You cannot write if you are not on fire
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Writing is sharing. You share what you have. Great writers have more to share
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
People speak even after their death. Only do speak those who have recorded their speech in writing before they die, the rest go silent forever
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them with his own people, all by the powers of his imagination. It's the closest a man can come close to the gods. No wonder the most successful writers are considered immortals
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Self-censorship is more efficient than any police. You write and say not what you really think, but what you believe is acceptable. By that process we lose those revolutionary ideas that could change society for the better
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are equally opened to him. He can hear the devil’s defense and god’s accusations. The guards at the king’s heart let him in. The writer can be anything and any one he wants. When he writes he is a god, he creates.
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
The power of the writer is to capture the thoughts live and present them as they appeared in his mind
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
A writer is never alone, he is always in conversation with himself
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Writing is self-pleasure
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Writing is all about self-expression, we want to speak up, to get it off our chest. Whether we make an impact or not that is not for us to decide
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
If I had time, money and knowledge I could write about everything; but no problem, Google is already doing it
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Writing is magic happening on paper
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Today almost everybody is a writer, the enormous publish button on blogs and websites begs you everywhere to click on it! And bam you are a writer. To hell with agents and publishing houses and rejection letters. Immortality for you is on the click of a mouth! We are advancing at the speed of light! You can become an author at 140 characters. To hell with long winding sentences and long hours of scratching the head, the immortals of today instantly get a like and they instantly enter the pantheon! They seat side by side Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, St Paul, Buddha, Martin Luther, Rousseau, Bangambiki…
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
When I write sometimes I strike gold, sometimes I labor in vain and keep producing rubbish
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
What you have to do to achieve what you want necessitates the creative actualization of the totality of your being as it is. Nothing more, but also nothing less.
~ Darrell Calkins
The simple, external acts in which you resolve shame and guilt, and set right a debt, by passing by them all and giving something grander even so and instead of. You end the circle by leaving it behind. Conscience brings awareness of the need to change something, but the source of your actions must become inspiration and devotion. You’re not doing it to get out of debt; you are doing it because you know it to be the thing to do.
~ Darrell Calkins
The seed of all this is imagination. But when you think of imagination, it helps to view it more as it exists in the rest of nature, rather than as we tend to see it in humans. That is, that imagination is actual and a need, immediately searches for expression, and con- sequently, is intimately connected to yearning and its instantaneous application. This is also the case in human beings, but we generally associate it with unnecessary, or extra, expression, such as an ability to make something more attractive or stimulating (the current view of art, for example), or the creative use of “free time” (time left over after you have done what you had to do).
~ Darrell Calkins