Quotes About Author

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.

I cannot say I'm a poet. That's for someone when they take in consideration where they can bestow 'poet' on. I can't do it. But I would be disingenuous if I didn't say that my intention is poetry.

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

The only nice poets I've ever met were bad poets, and a bad poet is not a poet at all - ergo, I've never met a nice poet.

My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice.

Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.

One of my very favourite poets was a Massachusetts poet named Robert Lowell.

The social scene at the Harvard I knew was outside the rules of literature. It was less poignant.

I'm almost numb to misogyny at this point. It's just everywhere.

Playing point guard is someone's instincts. They're used to that. That's my instincts.

I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America.

I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.

I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out story.

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

I would say I have sort of a natural gift for character, and following one person's point of view at a time, and dialogue, but I'm not naturally good at strong plot.

My point of view as a writer has to be a lot more ego-less than just like being some performer on stage with a hairdo.

For 'A.D.,' when I got the script, I was really moved, because even though it told a story that I knew all my life, it was told in a different way. It was told from a very personal point of view.

I'm a very girlie girl, but I often find the heroes of my books trying to take over the story. In truth, I enjoy writing the male point of view more than any other.

You see, the people that have a point of view and have an opinion and have some intellect are dangerous in the film community - they're dangerous.

Judges have their own point of view, and we have to respect them for that. Rather than feeling bad, we respect our judges and their opinions.