"Go home and write / a page..." - Quote by Langston Hughes
Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.
More by Langston Hughes
“Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.”
“In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.”
“I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.”
More on Writing
“The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.”
“The central point of this final chapter is that - follow my logic carefully here - unless you die, you will continue to get older. (It's insights like this that separate the professional book author from the person with a real job.)”
“The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.”
More on Authenticity
“You can't do anything good that you don't feel in your heart.”
“Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.”
“I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.”