Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
~ Jonathan Franzen
The internet is killing the art of writing. The big publish button begs you to publish even before you go back and make one single edit, and as if this was not enough, you have instant readers who praise your writing skills!-
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid anymore, because when I write, I am not trying to prove anything to anyone, I am just expressing myself and my opinions. It’s ok if my opinions are different from those of the reader, each of us can have his own opinions. So writing is like talking, if you are afraid of writing, you may end up being afraid of talking
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
One author said I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.” It's hard to live a footprint in the sands of history when giants are passing through the same sands unless you are one of the giants
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
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 know, not everyone will like what I write, but writing is not about trying to please everybody.
~ E.a. Bucchianeri
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