--- title: "11 Writing Quotes By Gza" description: "11 Writing quotes by Gza. Plus more from Gza and more Writing sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e7/gza-3767_art_i-think-artists-should-really-write-more_2864288.png" --- > [I think artists should really write more.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gza/i-think-artists-should-really-write-more/) Gza [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e7/gza-3767_art_i-think-artists-should-really-write-more_2864288.png) > [I'm constantly writing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gza/i-m-constantly-writing/) Gza [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/843/gza-3767_constantly_i-m-constantly-writing-2567339_2567339.png) > [To write a story is to create a world of your own.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gza/to-write-a-story-is-to-create-a-world-of-your-own/) Gza [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/833/gza-3767_create_to-write-a-story-is-to-create-a-world-of_2211773.png) > [I used to make demo tapes with cats that rocked with Russell Simmons and people like that. The history goes so far…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gza/i-used-to-make-demo-tapes-with-cats-that-rocked-with-russell-simmons/) Gza [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2da/gza-3767_always_i-used-to-make-demo-tapes-with-cats-that_3140510.png) > [When I was growing up, to be an emcee meant to write the most clever, intellectual, and wittiest rap. And that's what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gza/when-i-was-growing-up-to-be-an-emcee-meant-to-write-the-most-clever/) Gza [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d6/gza-3767_clever_when-i-was-growing-up-to-be-an-emcee-mea_2891942.png) > [Writing is sort of like chess for me. You have to think carefully before you move, thinking, planning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gza/writing-is-sort-of-like-chess-for-me-you-have-to-think-carefully/) Gza [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a32/gza-3767_chess_writing-is-sort-of-like-chess-for-me-you_1334021.png) > [In chess, you have to bring all the pieces into the game. It is about development. In writing, you have to develop…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gza/in-chess-you-have-to-bring-all-the-pieces-into-the-game-it-is-about/) Gza [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d7/gza-3767_chess_in-chess-you-have-to-bring-all-the-piece_1538422.png) > [Rap - it's a childhood passion. Writing rhymes, it's something that I was doing before rap records even existed. And I will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gza/rap-it-s-a-childhood-passion-writing-rhymes-it-s-something-that-i-was/) Gza [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/054/gza-3767_childhood_rap-it-s-a-childhood-passion-writing-rhy_2517868.png) > [Writing, for me, really started in the '70s as a young child. I used to read a lot of nursery rhymes, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gza/writing-for-me-really-started-in-the-70s-as-a-young-child-i-used-to/) Gza [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b39/gza-3767_children_writing-for-me-really-started-in-the-70s_2244692.png) > [I could write about a pencil if I wanted to. You just take it back deep enough, all the way back to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gza/i-could-write-about-a-pencil-if-i-wanted-to-you-just-take-it-back/) Gza [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b8/gza-3767_deep_i-could-write-about-a-pencil-if-i-wanted_2444826.png) > [We haven't been on the same page in years. It is what it is. Sometimes that match burns out. So, no, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gza/we-haven-t-been-on-the-same-page-in-years-it-is-what-it-is-sometimes/) GZA [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/979/gza-3767_burn-out_we-haven-t-been-on-the-same-page-in-year_1108478.png) ## Other authors on Writing - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-ernest-hemingway-33795.jpg) Ernest Hemingway 243 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/ernest-hemingway/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-ray-bradbury-77494.jpg) Ray Bradbury 186 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/ray-bradbury/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-neil-gaiman-70689.jpg) Neil Gaiman 185 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/neil-gaiman/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-anne-lamott-13804.jpg) Anne Lamott 153 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/anne-lamott/) - [Samuel Johnson 134 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/samuel-johnson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-haruki-murakami-40784.jpg) Haruki Murakami 130 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/haruki-murakami/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-virginia-woolf-93906.jpg) Virginia Woolf 128 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/virginia-woolf/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-kurt-vonnegut-58049.jpg) Kurt Vonnegut 123 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/kurt-vonnegut/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-saunders-37966.jpg) George Saunders 118 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/george-saunders/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-joyce-carol-oates-53785.jpg) Joyce Carol Oates 110 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/joyce-carol-oates/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-natalie-goldberg-70301.jpg) Natalie Goldberg 107 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/natalie-goldberg/) ## More by Gza > [I don't eat meat - chicken, fish, none of that. I eat a lot of vegetable sandwiches, like lettuce, tomatoes, sprouts, cucumbers, whatever I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gza/i-don-t-eat-meat-chicken-fish-none-of-that-i-eat-a-lot-of-vegetable/) Gza > [I had a few DJs in my neighbourhood that would play music in the streets. There was no hip-hop yet; there were just DJs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gza/i-had-a-few-djs-in-my-neighbourhood-that-would-play-music-in-the/) Gza > [I think, for myself, as an artist, the progression is a lyrical progression and what I choose to target my lyrics at and how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gza/i-think-for-myself-as-an-artist-the-progression-is-a-lyrical/) Gza > [Hip-hop started with street poets with great lyrical skills, and that's what hip-hop has always been about for me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gza/hip-hop-started-with-street-poets-with-great-lyrical-skills-and-that/) Gza > [As far as being a vegetarian, it's a moral thing, a health thing, a conscious thing - a combination of all. I think it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gza/as-far-as-being-a-vegetarian-it-s-a-moral-thing-a-health-thing-a/) Gza > [When the Black Lips sent a track over to me, I thought it sounded like a Beastie Boys track, the way the singer was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gza/when-the-black-lips-sent-a-track-over-to-me-i-thought-it-sounded-like/) Gza > [I'm just really, really laid-back-slash-lazy. Last minute with everything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gza/i-m-just-really-really-laid-back-slash-lazy-last-minute-with/) Gza > [I think every being in the universe is connected somehow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gza/i-think-every-being-in-the-universe-is-connected-somehow/) Gza > [I get inspired by many different things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gza/i-get-inspired-by-many-different-things/) Gza > [I don't knock material rappers, but let me hear it in a different way. How many songs do I have to hear about rims…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gza/i-don-t-knock-material-rappers-but-let-me-hear-it-in-a-different-way/) Gza > [I throw raps that attacks like the Japs at Pearl Harbor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gza/i-throw-raps-that-attacks-like-the-japs-at-pearl-harbor/) GZA > [Moog has been incorporated in a lot of our music. I know RZA has several of those machines. So, it did play a major…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gza/moog-has-been-incorporated-in-a-lot-of-our-music-i-know-rza-has/) Gza > [I just have certain interests in different things, and they inspire me to write. I would encourage aspiring artists or MCs or rappers to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gza/i-just-have-certain-interests-in-different-things-and-they-inspire-me/) Gza > [It's always been about shelf life. Long-term parking, not short-term. That's why I take the time that I do when I write.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gza/it-s-always-been-about-shelf-life-long-term-parking-not-short-term/) Gza > [Before hip-hop existed, we were listening to soul songs from the '70s. I grew up with Motown, Elton John, and the Beatles. To me,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gza/before-hip-hop-existed-we-were-listening-to-soul-songs-from-the-70s-i/) Gza ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/gza/#itemlist", "name": "11 Writing Quotes By Gza", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think artists should really write more.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gza" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gza/i-think-artists-should-really-write-more/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e7/gza-3767_art_i-think-artists-should-really-write-more_2864288.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e7/gza-3767_art_i-think-artists-should-really-write-more_2864288.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e7/gza-3767_art_i-think-artists-should-really-write-more_2864288.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I think artists should really write more.” — Gza", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I'm constantly writing.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gza" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gza/i-m-constantly-writing/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/843/gza-3767_constantly_i-m-constantly-writing-2567339_2567339.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/843/gza-3767_constantly_i-m-constantly-writing-2567339_2567339.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/843/gza-3767_constantly_i-m-constantly-writing-2567339_2567339.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I'm constantly writing.” — Gza", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "To write a story is to create a world of your own.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gza" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gza/to-write-a-story-is-to-create-a-world-of-your-own/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/833/gza-3767_create_to-write-a-story-is-to-create-a-world-of_2211773.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/833/gza-3767_create_to-write-a-story-is-to-create-a-world-of_2211773.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/833/gza-3767_create_to-write-a-story-is-to-create-a-world-of_2211773.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“To write a story is to create a world of your own.” — Gza", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I used to make demo tapes with cats that rocked with Russell Simmons and people like that. 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