In order to protect their good names for posterity, many writers never wrote what they thought or the truth as it stood. That's why truth still lies hidden in matters of power, sex and religion. No wonder they chose to do so, many who dared paid with their heads
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things like money, contracts and books are made up of soft paper.
~ Amit Kalantri
If you are writing fiction, think like a god. Release all the power of your imagination; create worlds and destroy them at your will, create as many miracles as your story needs
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
A writer is a thought smith, he educates men to think for themselves
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
The world would have been a better place if some men had just shut their mouths.
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
I am what I have ever read
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
We write, not because we claim to know more than others, but perhaps because we want to know more than others. Writers are explorers
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Words disappear in the air, but writing remains. If you want something to be remembered about you, write it down
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
A writer is never alone, he is always with himself
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
You say you have nothing to write about? How do you find things to talk about? You can write about those things you like to talk about, that's your area of expertise
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
. If you want to write, just write anything that comes into your mind. You will be surprised at how you can force inspiration to stand on your side.
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
You can edit what you write. Why not edit what you say? If it hurts somebody, you can still offer an apology or withdraw your statements
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
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