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Naomi Shihab Nye on Writing

born 1952 United States

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4 quotes

I've always thought of song writing and poem writing as cousins.

with Al Jadid (1996)

I always took writing as being a way of thinking.

with Al Jadid (1996)

That feeling of being connected to someone else, when you allow yourself to be very particular, is another mystery of writing.

with On Being (2016)

Writing...helps us identify what makes the whole geography of our lives.

with Al Jadid (1996)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Naomi Shihab Nye (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.