Writing Quotes

Give a poet a pen

. . . chasing after words like trying to grab the tails of comets.

There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.

The crazy thing about poetry is how its simplicity makes it complicated.

I will go to campus alone dressed in antique silk slips and beat-up cowboy boots and gypsy beads, and I will study poetry. I will sit on the edge of the fountain in the plaza and write.

Poets, like fighters, both reap the benefits of roadwork.

When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.

And so I pray I am today as honestwith myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter.

Everything has its poetry. 94

Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.

You ask me why I don't speakNot a word at willBut write so much worth well over a mill'Well I value words like I value kissesA sober one, a closer one penetrates the heartDarling it's how it mends it

Memang sulit menulis puisi. Dan untuk apa mempersulit diri sendiri.

If I knew what to doI'd do more than write a song for you

The one who pulls the puppet strings knows fairytales can heal.

Heavy as such things areAfter the wordslide, the writing begins."From "Word Quake

We can’t choose our poetic fathers any more than our biological ones — but we can choose how to come to terms with them.

I want to read every book that’s writtenhear every song that was sungI want to gaze at every cloudand hold the zing of each fruit on my tongue.

My earliest poems appear almost skeletal to me now - it seems I've learned to add meat, muscle and a nice suit of clothes.

There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper...

Lineation can make your break your poems.

Contemporary poets got so obscure that poetry kind of fell out of favor,

Writing poems is simply an excuse to remember You.

There is of course a deep spiritual need which the pilgrimage seems to satisfy, particularly for those hardy enough to tackle the journey on foot.

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences

Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.

The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.", Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.", July 5, 1922]

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.", February 25, 1933]

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible

The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.

How do I know what I think until I see what I say?

If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad.

Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.", 1964)

You are what you write.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

You don’t deserve my image in your head. You don’t deserve my memories in your chest.

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.", July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.", Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]

Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery, too.

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity.