--- title: "14 Write Quotes By Maya Angelou" description: "14 Write quotes by Maya Angelou. Plus more from Maya Angelou and more Write sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5c/maya-angelou-104_brain_the-idea-is-to-write-it-so-that-people-h_274464.png" --- > [The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/the-idea-is-to-write-it-so-that-people-hear-it-and-it-slides-through/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5c/maya-angelou-104_brain_the-idea-is-to-write-it-so-that-people-h_274464.png) > [When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/when-i-write-i-tend-to-twist-my-hair-something-for-my-small-mind-to/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3d/maya-angelou-104_hair_when-i-write-i-tend-to-twist-my-hair-som_1679210.png) > [I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/i-write-some-country-music-there-s-a-song-called-i-hope-you-dance/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/497/maya-angelou-104_beat_i-write-some-country-music-there-s-a-son_2770914.png) > [I never have written every day. When I'm writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/i-never-have-written-every-day-when-i-m-writing-a-book-i-write-monday/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e42/maya-angelou-104_book_i-never-have-written-every-day-when-i-m_26194.png) > [I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/i-want-to-write-so-well-that-a-person-is-30-or-40-pages-in-a-book-of/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/093/maya-angelou-104_book_i-want-to-write-so-well-that-a-person-is_596331.png) > [We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/we-write-for-the-same-reason-that-we-walk-talk-climb-mountains-or/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c8/maya-angelou-104_because_we-write-for-the-same-reason-that-we-wal_964764.png) > [What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/what-i-try-to-do-is-write-i-may-write-for-two-weeks-the-cat-sat-on/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42b/maya-angelou-104_awful_what-i-try-to-do-is-write-i-may-write-fo_832905.png) > [I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/i-know-that-one-of-the-great-arts-that-the-writer-develops-is-the-art/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/459/maya-angelou-104_alone_i-know-that-one-of-the-great-arts-that-t_1361859.png) > [Each time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/each-time-i-write-a-book-every-time-i-face-that-yellow-pad-the/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20f/maya-angelou-104_book_each-time-i-write-a-book-every-time-i-fa_2261472.jpg) > [Every experience shapes your writing, being stuck in a car on a lonely bridge, or dancing at a prom, being the it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/every-experience-shapes-your-writing-being-stuck-in-a-car-on-a-lonely/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cdf/maya-angelou-104_african-american_every-experience-shapes-your-writing-bei_425569.png) > [I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/i-promised-myself-that-i-would-write-as-well-as-i-can-tell-the-truth/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc1/maya-angelou-104_affords_i-promised-myself-that-i-would-write-as_1785681.png) > [I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/i-ve-still-not-written-as-well-as-i-want-to-i-want-to-write-so-that/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b5/maya-angelou-104_africa_i-ve-still-not-written-as-well-as-i-want_2777815.png) > [We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/we-write-for-the-same-reason-that-we-walk-talk-climb-mountains-or-3/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3fb/maya-angelou-104_brilliant_we-write-for-the-same-reason-that-we-wal_2857904.png) > [In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/in-all-my-work-in-the-movies-i-write-the-lyrics-the-poetry-the-prose/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b53/maya-angelou-104_alike_in-all-my-work-in-the-movies-i-write-the_2953816.jpg) ## Other authors on Write ## More by Maya Angelou > [Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/courage-the-most-important-of-all-the-virtues-because-without-courage/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) > [If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/if-we-accept-being-talked-to-any-kind-of-a-way-then-we-are-telling/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) > [You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/you-should-be-angry-you-must-not-be-bitter-bitterness-is-like-cancer/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) > [“You are very kind and very intelligent and those elements are not always found together. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, and my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/you-are-very-kind-and-very-intelligent-and-those-elements-are-not/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) > [I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/i-agreed-a-long-time-ago-i-would-not-live-at-any-cost-if-i-am-moved/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) > [You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/you-want-me-to-do-something-tell-me-i-can-t-do-it/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) > [Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/intelligence-is-a-separate-gift-for-the-benefit-of-students-so-that/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) > [Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/life-is-going-to-give-you-just-what-you-put-in-it-put-your-whole/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) > [“You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/you-may-write-me-down-in-history-with-your-bitter-twisted-lies-you/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) > [The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/the-more-you-know-of-your-history-the-more-liberated-you-are/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) > [Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/life-offers-us-tickets-to-places-which-we-have-not-knowingly-asked-for/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) > [Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/every-person-needs-to-take-one-day-away-a-day-in-which-one/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) > [I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/i-m-working-at-trying-to-be-a-christian-and-that-s-serious-business/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) > [Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/nathaniel-hawthorne-once-said-that-easy-reading-is-damn-hard-writing/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) > [Sunday, if I'm lucky, I'll go to church or listen to some good spiritual advice on the television or on the radio. I take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/sunday-if-i-m-lucky-i-ll-go-to-church-or-listen-to-some-good/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/write/maya-angelou/#itemlist", "name": "14 Write Quotes By Maya Angelou", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Maya Angelou" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/the-idea-is-to-write-it-so-that-people-hear-it-and-it-slides-through/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5c/maya-angelou-104_brain_the-idea-is-to-write-it-so-that-people-h_274464.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5c/maya-angelou-104_brain_the-idea-is-to-write-it-so-that-people-h_274464.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5c/maya-angelou-104_brain_the-idea-is-to-write-it-so-that-people-h_274464.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.” — Maya Angelou", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When I write, I tend to twist my hair. 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