Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes on Brooks
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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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Already you're on Page 8.
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What shall I say, how is the truth to be said? You were born, you had body, you died. It is just that you never giggled or planned or cried.
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Believe me, I loved you all. Believe me, I knew you, though faintly, and I loved, I loved you All.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.