Quotes About Writing

That's kind of the challenging thing about writing an inaugural poem. You're speaking to everyone, but you don't also want to speak for everyone.

One of my greatest joys is poetry. I read it almost every day, and I've even taken a stab at writing some of my own. A poem I wrote for my mother when she was dying really helped me get through that hard time.

I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row, then down another, and try not to look up too often to see how far you still have to go.

Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.

I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day.

To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing.

I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a few drafts, I type up the poem on a Macintosh G3 and then send it out the door.

I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.

I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.

I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem.

As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.

I started writing after the death of my grandfather - memories, poems, etc. It was very personal; for years I did not share my writing with anyone.

I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer.

I write short phrases and used to think they were poems!

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.

I started writing poems on a Xanga page. I always loved writing. I also had a Deviant Art page, actually, because my crush had one, too.

I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.

I want to write poems which are very emotional, but I would have some hesitation in saying I want to write poems which are sentimental.

I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.