Writing Quotes

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.

Writing ... is the great invention of the world.

I have been occupying a position, since the Presidential election, of silence, of avoiding public speaking, of avoiding public writing. I have been doing so because I thought, upon full consideration, that was the proper course for me to take.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.

Write your Sad times in Sand,Write your Good times in Stone.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.