Quotes About Writing

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

Let your heart dance with pen and paperNow fill the paper with dancing letters.

I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty.

I told her it takesa lot of solitude to write a poem.She told me it takes a lot of solitudeto die.

The ink of a pen is simply the blood of a heart

Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell.

poetry is the tombstone of experience, nothing i write is my own.~from "the damned

There is a difference between a poem and a writing incrusted with a feel of Poetry to fall within range

I'm merely dying to be remembered for simply writing about my living memories

All that is not prose passes for poetry.

When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.

For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.

It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter.

I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that.

Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.