Famous Poetry Quotes
" Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize ........" ~ A. Bronson Alcott
" Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, ........" ~ A.E. Housman
" The smell of ink is intoxicating to me - others may ........" ~ Abbe Yeux-verdi
" An editor is someone who separates the wheat from ........" ~ Adlai Stevenson
" The best time for planning a book is while you're ........" ~ Agatha Christie
" The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from ........" ~ Albert Camus
" True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance, As ........" ~ Alexander Pope
" Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three ........" ~ Alfred de Musset
" The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand ........" ~ Alfred Kazin
" Deliver me from writers who say the way they live ........" ~ Alice Walker
" Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said ........" ~ Allen Tate
" The role of a writer is not to say what we all can ........" ~ Anaďs Nin
" The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts ........" ~ André Gide
" What would there be in a story of happiness? Only ........" ~ André Gide
" "Therefore" is a word the poet must not ........" ~ André Gide
" It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and ........" ~ Ann Beattie
" Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint ........" ~ Anton Chekhov
" A poem should not mean But be........." ~ Archibald MacLeish
" The distinction between historian and poet is not ........" ~ Aristotle
" You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of ........" ~ Arthur Polotnik
" Happiness is sharing a bowl of cherries and a book ........" ~ Astrid Alauda
" Ink on paper is as beautiful to me as flowers on the mountains; God composes, why shouldn't we?........" ~ Audra Foveo-Alba
" Poetry is not always words........." ~ Audrey Foris
" The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?........" ~ Augustus Hare and Julius Hare
" Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the ........" ~ Augustus Hare and Julius Hare
" Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of Nature........." ~ Augustus Hare and Julius Hare
" Most painters have painted themselves. So have most ........" ~ Augustus Hare and Julius Hare
" The reason why many people are so fond of using superlatives, ........" ~ Augustus Hare and Julius Hare
" The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then ........" ~ Augustus Hare and Julius Hare
" If Painting be Poetry's sister, she can only be a ........" ~ Augustus Hare and Julius Hare
" Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our ........" ~ Augustus Hare and Julius Hare
" There is as much difference between good poetry and ........" ~ Augustus Hare and Julius Hare
" Proofread carefully to see if you any words out........." ~ Author Unknown
" A metaphor is like a simile........." ~ Author Unknown
" If the author had said "Let us put on appropriate ........" ~ Author Unknown
" Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write ........" ~ Author Unknown
" Your manuscript is both good and original; but the ........" ~ Author Unknown
" A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the ........" ~ Baltasar Gracián
" When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and ........" ~ Blaise Pascal
" Even those who write against fame wish for the fame ........" ~ Blaise Pascal
" What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that ........" ~ Burton Rascoe
" Pen names are masks that allow us to unmask ourselves........." ~ C. Astrid Weber
" The coroner will find ink in my veins and blood on ........" ~ C. Astrid Weber
" Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes........." ~ Carl Sandburg
" Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance........." ~ Carl Sandburg
" Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on ........" ~ Carl Sandburg
" I've written some poetry I don't understand myself........." ~ Carl Sandburg
" Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits........." ~ Carl Sandburg
" Writing is a struggle against silence........." ~ Carlos Fuentes
" Writing is a product of silence........." ~ Carrie Latet
" If I'm trying to sleep, the ideas won't stop. If ........" ~ Carrie Latet
" Authorship is exhibitionism, and readers a species ........" ~ Carrie Latet
" Without a pen I feel naked, but it's writing that ........" ~ Carrie Latet
" Come voyeur my poems Feel free, I feel free........." ~ Carrie Latet
" Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing ........" ~ Catherine Drinker Bowen
" Always be a poet, even in prose........." ~ Charles Baudelaire
" Many books require no thought from those who read ........" ~ Charles Caleb Colton
" When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't ........" ~ Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
" A word is not the same with one writer as with another........." ~ Charles Peguy
" Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into ........" ~ Charles Simic
" An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, ........" ~ Chateaubriand
" Poetry is the language in which man explores his own ........" ~ Christopher Fry
" Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does ........" ~ Christopher Morley
" Sit down, and put down everything that comes into ........" ~ Colette
" I am a man, and alive.... For this reason I am a novelist........." ~ D.H. Lawrence
" It's impossible to write poetry in front of the TV Almost ........" ~ Daisey Verlaef
" If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don't remove ........" ~ Danzae Pace
" Anyone who believes you can't change history has never ........" ~ David Ben Gurion
" We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. ........" ~ Dead Poet's Society
" Let me walk through the fields of paper touching ........" ~ Denise Levertov
" One of the obligations of the writer is to say or ........" ~ Denise Levertov
" Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making ........" ~ Dennis Gabor
" Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal ........" ~ Don Marquis
" i never think at all when i write nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well........" ~ Don Marquis
" If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort ........" ~ Don Marquis
" You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick........." ~ Dylan Thomas
" Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed........." ~ Dylan Thomas
" English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment ........" ~ E. B. White
" A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer.... He ........" ~ E.B. White
" Be obscure clearly........." ~ E.B. White
" Writing is both mask and unveiling........." ~ E.B. White
" Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia........." ~ E.L. Doctorow
" Writers are not just people who sit down and write........." ~ E.L. Doctorow
" A poem is true if it hangs together. Information ........" ~ E.M. Forster
" If conditions aren't right The poem won't come out It ........" ~ Ed Northstrum
" Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words........." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
" The word "Verse" is used here as the term ........" ~ Edgar Allan Poe
" I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my ........" ~ Edith Södergran
" Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows........." ~ Edmund Burke
" Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love ........" ~ Edna Ferber
" He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; ........" ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
" Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast ........" ~ Eli Khamarov
" The process of writing has something infinite about ........" ~ Elias Canetti
" The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves ........" ~ Elizabeth Drew
" I try to leave out the parts that people skip........." ~ Elmore Leonard
" Publication - is the auction of the Mind of Man........." ~ Emily Dickinson
" To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in ........" ~ Emily Dickinson
" I keep little notepads all over the place to write ........" ~ Emily Logan Decens
" Ink and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes ........" ~ Emme Woodhull-Bäche
" I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to ........" ~ English Professor
" When something can be read without effort, great effort ........" ~ Enrique Jardiel Poncela
" The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, ........" ~ Ernest Hemingway
" A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the ........" ~ Ethel Wilson
" Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must ........" ~ Etty Hillesum
" A notepad by the bedside accounts for half the earnings ........" ~ Ever Garrison
" There was never a good biography of a good novelist........." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
" The artist's only responsibility is his art. He will ........" ~ Faulkner
" Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support ........" ~ Fay Weldon
" Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university ........" ~ Flannery O'Connor
" Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university ........" ~ Flannery O’Connor
" I am writing in the garden. To write as one should ........" ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
" Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that ........" ~ Francis Bacon
" Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write ........" ~ Franklin P. Adams
" Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold ........" ~ Franz Kafka
" Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?........" ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
" You could compile the worst book in the world entirely ........" ~ G.K. Chesterton
" A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but ........" ~ G.K. Chesterton
" oets have been mysteriously silent on the subject ........" ~ G.K. Chesterton
" Whatever an author puts between the two covers of ........" ~ Gail Hamilton
" Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank ........" ~ Gene Fowler
" One hates an author that's all author........." ~ George Gordon, Lord Byron
" Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, ........" ~ George Orwell
" He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry ........" ~ George Sand
" A sold poem loses half its meaning........." ~ Glade Byron Addams
" Poets are like magicians, searching for magical phrases ........" ~ Glade Byron Addams
" Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't ........" ~ Gloria Steinem
" I do not like to write - I like to have written........." ~ Gloria Steinem
" Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, ........" ~ Goethe
" Good things, when short, are twice as good........." ~ Gracián
" Writers are just people who have a whole lot on the ........" ~ Graycie Harmon
" Being an author is having angels whisper in your ear ........" ~ Graycie Harmon
" Being an author is like being in charge of your own ........" ~ Graycie Harmon
" I even shower with my pen, in case any ideas drip ........" ~ Graycie Harmon
" An author in his book must be like God in the universe, ........" ~ Gustave Flaubert
" Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly ........" ~ Gustave Flaubert
" Poetry is life distilled........." ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
" Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the ........" ~ Hannah Arendt
" So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than ........" ~ Harold Acton
" I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his ........" ~ Harold Ross
" One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in ........" ~ Hart Crane
" All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell ........" ~ Harvey Cox
" It is the little writer rather than the great writer ........" ~ Havelock Ellis
" No one means all he says, and yet very few say all ........" ~ Henry Brooks Adams
" A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely ........" ~ Henry David Thoreau
" How vain it is to sit down to write when you have ........" ~ Henry David Thoreau
" No poems can please for long or live that are written ........" ~ Horace
" If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, ........" ~ Isaac Asimov
" The wastebasket is a writer's best friend........." ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
" Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between ........" ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
" Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce ........" ~ Jack Lynch
" I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing ........" ~ Jack Smith
" Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is........." ~ James Branch Cabell
" I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words ........" ~ James Michener
" I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter........." ~ James Michener
" Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's ........" ~ James Norman Hall
" The poet doesn't invent. He listens........." ~ Jean Cocteau
" The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without ........" ~ Jean Cocteau
" Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the ........" ~ Jean Cocteau
" A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does ........" ~ Jean Cocteau
" The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth........." ~ Jean Cocteau
" A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an ........" ~ Jean Luc Godard
" Imitation is the highest form of pissing me off. ........" ~ Jen T. Verbumessor
" There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths ........" ~ Jessamyn West
" Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, ........" ~ Jessamyn West
" It seems to me that those songs that have been any ........" ~ Joan Baez
" There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess ........" ~ John Cage
" For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the ........" ~ John Cheever
" You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence ........" ~ John Ciardi
" A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room ........" ~ John K. Hutchens
" Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording ........" ~ John Keats
" The poetry of the earth is never dead........." ~ John Keats
" He that uses many words for the explaining any subject ........" ~ John Ray
" I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam ........" ~ John Updike
" Every writer I know has trouble writing........." ~ Joseph Heller
" You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some ........" ~ Joseph Joubert
" Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those ........" ~ Joseph Roux
" Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted........." ~ Jules Renard
" The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely ........" ~ Jules Renard
" An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession ........" ~ Juvenal, Satires
" Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with ........" ~ Kahlil Gibran
" A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an ........" ~ Karl Kraus
" My language is the common prostitute that I turn into ........" ~ Karl Kraus
" Women do not always have to write about women, or ........" ~ Kathryn Hughes
" Writer's block is a disease for which there is no ........" ~ Laurie Wordholt
" Critics are by no means the end of the law. Do not ........" ~ Lavina Goodell
" One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of ........" ~ Leo Tolstoy
" Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's ........" ~ Leo Tolstoy
" Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life ........" ~ Leonard Cohen
" If I had to give young writers advice, I would say ........" ~ Lillian Hellman
" The poet... may be used as a barometer, but let us ........" ~ Lionel Trilling
" Yes there is a meaning; at least for me, there is ........" ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
" What things there are to write, if one could only ........" ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
" What I like in a good author is not what he says, ........" ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
" If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad........." ~ Lord Byron
" To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, ........" ~ Lord Byron
" But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, ........" ~ Lord Byron
" Keep a diary and one day it'll keep you........." ~ Mae West
" Imaginary gardens with real toads in them........." ~ Marianne Moore
" Ink runs from the corners of my mouth There is no ........" ~ Mark Strand
" As to the adjective, when in doubt, strike it out........." ~ Mark Twain
" The time to begin writing an article is when you have ........" ~ Mark Twain
" Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined ........" ~ Mark Twain
" The difference between the right word and the almost ........" ~ Mark Twain
" There are some books that refuse to be written. They ........" ~ Mark Twain
" I notice that you use plain, simple language, short ........" ~ Mark Twain
" To get the right word in the right place is a rare ........" ~ Mark Twain
" The only cure for writer's block is insomnia........." ~ Merit Antares
" An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program ........" ~ Mignon McLaughlin
" A critic can only review the book he has read, not ........" ~ Mignon McLaughlin
" There's only one person who needs a glass of water ........" ~ Mignon McLaughlin
" There are men that will make you books, and turn them ........" ~ Miguel de Cervantes
" Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry........." ~ Muriel Rukeyser
" Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as ........" ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
" Easy reading is damn hard writing........." ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
" Your prayer can be poetry, and poetry can be your ........" ~ Noelani Day
" The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for ........" ~ Norbet Platt
" I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, ........" ~ Norman Mailer
" Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason........." ~ Novalis
" Poets aren't very useful Because they aren't consumeful ........" ~ Ogden Nash
" Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in ........" ~ Orson Scott Card
" He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others ........" ~ Oscar Wilde
" A poet can survive everything but a misprint........." ~ Oscar Wilde
" Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write ........" ~ Oscar Wilde
" I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between ........" ~ Pablo Neruda
" Poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power........." ~ Paul Engle
" A poem is never finished, only abandoned........." ~ Paul Valéry
" I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if ........" ~ Pearl S. Buck
" In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream ........" ~ Pearl S. Buck
" Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world........." ~ Percy Byshe Shelley
" Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which ........" ~ Percy Shelley
" I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the ........" ~ Peter De Vries
" Let's hope the institution of marriage survives its ........" ~ Peter S. Prescott
" Poetry is nobody's business except the poet's, and ........" ~ Philip Larkin
" Browsing the dim back corner Of a musty antique shop Opened ........" ~ Pixie Foudre
" Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history........." ~ Plato, Ion
" Our passions shape our books; repose writes them in ........" ~ Proust
" You can't write poetry on the computer........." ~ Quentin Tarantino
" Find out the reason that commands you to write; see ........" ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
" The reality is more excellent than the report........." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
" Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, ........" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
" Everything in creation has its appointed painter or ........" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
" The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite ........" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
" All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients........." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
" You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy ........" ~ Ray Bradbury
" The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones ........" ~ Ray Bradbury
" A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof........." ~ Rene Char
" The poem is the point at which our strength gave out........." ~ Richard Rosen
" I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for ........" ~ Richard Wright
" Poetry is language at its most distilled and most ........" ~ Rita Dove
" Writers will happen in the best of families........." ~ Rita Mae Brown
" It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent ........" ~ Robert Benchley
" God is the perfect poet........." ~ Robert Browning
" They lard their lean books with the fat of others' ........" ~ Robert Burton
" Poetry is what gets lost in translation........." ~ Robert Frost
" Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and ........" ~ Robert Frost
" [A poem] begins in delight and ends in wisdom........." ~ Robert Frost
" To be a poet is a condition, not a profession........." ~ Robert Frost
" The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual ........" ~ Robert Frost
" Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride ........" ~ Robert Frost
" Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their ........" ~ Robert Frost
" A poem begins with a lump in the throat........." ~ Robert Frost
" I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with ........" ~ Robert Frost
" There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry ........" ~ Robert Graves
" The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the ........" ~ Robert Penn Warren
" The poem... is a little myth of man's capacity of ........" ~ Robert Penn Warren
" Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for ........" ~ Robinson Jeffers
" The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then........" ~ Roger McGough
" If you got to talking to most cowboys, they'd admit ........" ~ Ross Knox
" No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes ........" ~ Russell Lynes
" Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who ........" ~ Sainte-Beuve
" A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point ........" ~ Salman Rushdie
" Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet ........" ~ Salvatore Quasimodo
" Books want to be born: I never make them. They come ........" ~ Samuel Butler
" When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, ........" ~ Samuel Butler
" The two most engaging powers of an author are to make ........" ~ Samuel Johnson
" Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage ........" ~ Samuel Johnson
" A man will turn over half a library to make one book........." ~ Samuel Johnson
" Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, ........" ~ Samuel Johnson
" Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth........." ~ Samuel Johnson
" When once the itch of literature comes over a man, ........" ~ Samuel Lover, Handy Andy
" A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants ........" ~ Samuel McChord Crothers
" A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants ........" ~ Samuel McChord Crothers
" Poetry: the best words in the best order........." ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
" Writing became such a process of discovery that I ........" ~ Sharon O'Brien
" Writing comes more easily if you have something to ........" ~ Sholem Asch
" [P]oets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge ........" ~ Sigmund Freud
" It is impossible to discourage the real writers - ........" ~ Sinclair Lewis
" The best style is the style you don't notice........." ~ Somerset Maugham
" A short saying often contains much wisdom........." ~ Sophocles
" A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by ........" ~ Soren Kierkegaard
" Fiction is the truth inside the lie........." ~ Stephen King
" It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged ........" ~ Stephen Mallarme
" And by the way, everything in life is writable about ........" ~ Sylvia Plath
" Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers........." ~ T. S. Eliot
" Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood........." ~ T.S. Eliot
" Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape ........" ~ T.S. Eliot
" Most editors are failed writers - but so are most ........" ~ T.S. Eliot
" If you've got a poem within you today, I can guarantee ........" ~ The Quote Garden
" Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we ........" ~ Theodore Dreiser
" Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy ........" ~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
" Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn........." ~ Thomas Gray
" If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, ........" ~ Thomas Hardy
" Mathematics and Poetry are... the utterance of the ........" ~ Thomas Hill
" Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always ........" ~ Thomas Jefferson
" A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult ........" ~ Thomas Mann
" The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction ........" ~ Tom Clancy
" If there's a book you really want to read, but it ........" ~ Toni Morrison
" To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what ........" ~ Truman Capote
" It's not plagiarism - I'm recycling words, as any ........" ~ Uniek Swain
" No man should ever publish a book until he has first ........" ~ Van Wyck Brooks
" As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from ........" ~ Virginia Woolf
" It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that ........" ~ Virginia Woolf
" When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, ........" ~ Virginia Woolf
" It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip ........" ~ Vita Sackville-West
" The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous ........" ~ Vladimir Nabakov
" A good style should show no signs of effort. What ........" ~ W. Somerset Maugham
" The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end ........" ~ W. Somerset Maugham
" The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether ........" ~ W.B. Yeats
" Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out ........" ~ W.B. Yeats
" What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?........" ~ W.H. Auden
" It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can ........" ~ W.H. Auden
" A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a ........" ~ Wallace Stevens
" To have great poets there must be great audiences ........" ~ Walt Whitman
" Every great writer is a writer of history, let him ........" ~ Walter Savage Landor
" There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down ........" ~ Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith
" Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories ........" ~ Willa Cather
" Poetry, like the moon, does not advertise anything........." ~ William Blissett
" Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, ........" ~ William Bolitho
" Who can tell the dancer from the dance?........" ~ William Butler Yeats
" Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your ........" ~ William Congreve
" The expression "to write something down" ........" ~ William Gass
" Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life........." ~ William Hazlitt
" There are thousands of thoughts lying within a man ........" ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
" Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't ........" ~ William Safire
" The good writing of any age has always been the product ........" ~ William Styron
" Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart........." ~ William Wordsworth
" Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart..........." ~ William Wordsworth
" History will be kind to me for I intend to write it........." ~ Winston Churchill
" A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else ........" ~ Yevgeny Yentushenko
" ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd ........" ~ Yolande Giovaanni, Jr.
" Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, ........" ~ A.E. Housman
" The smell of ink is intoxicating to me - others may ........" ~ Abbe Yeux-verdi
" An editor is someone who separates the wheat from ........" ~ Adlai Stevenson
" The best time for planning a book is while you're ........" ~ Agatha Christie
" The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from ........" ~ Albert Camus
" True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance, As ........" ~ Alexander Pope
" Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three ........" ~ Alfred de Musset
" The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand ........" ~ Alfred Kazin
" Deliver me from writers who say the way they live ........" ~ Alice Walker
" Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said ........" ~ Allen Tate
" The role of a writer is not to say what we all can ........" ~ Anaďs Nin
" The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts ........" ~ André Gide
" What would there be in a story of happiness? Only ........" ~ André Gide
" "Therefore" is a word the poet must not ........" ~ André Gide
" It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and ........" ~ Ann Beattie
" Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint ........" ~ Anton Chekhov
" A poem should not mean But be........." ~ Archibald MacLeish
" The distinction between historian and poet is not ........" ~ Aristotle
" You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of ........" ~ Arthur Polotnik
" Happiness is sharing a bowl of cherries and a book ........" ~ Astrid Alauda
" Ink on paper is as beautiful to me as flowers on the mountains; God composes, why shouldn't we?........" ~ Audra Foveo-Alba
" Poetry is not always words........." ~ Audrey Foris
" The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?........" ~ Augustus Hare and Julius Hare
" Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the ........" ~ Augustus Hare and Julius Hare
" Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of Nature........." ~ Augustus Hare and Julius Hare
" Most painters have painted themselves. So have most ........" ~ Augustus Hare and Julius Hare
" The reason why many people are so fond of using superlatives, ........" ~ Augustus Hare and Julius Hare
" The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then ........" ~ Augustus Hare and Julius Hare
" If Painting be Poetry's sister, she can only be a ........" ~ Augustus Hare and Julius Hare
" Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our ........" ~ Augustus Hare and Julius Hare
" There is as much difference between good poetry and ........" ~ Augustus Hare and Julius Hare
" Proofread carefully to see if you any words out........." ~ Author Unknown
" A metaphor is like a simile........." ~ Author Unknown
" If the author had said "Let us put on appropriate ........" ~ Author Unknown
" Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write ........" ~ Author Unknown
" Your manuscript is both good and original; but the ........" ~ Author Unknown
" A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the ........" ~ Baltasar Gracián
" When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and ........" ~ Blaise Pascal
" Even those who write against fame wish for the fame ........" ~ Blaise Pascal
" What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that ........" ~ Burton Rascoe
" Pen names are masks that allow us to unmask ourselves........." ~ C. Astrid Weber
" The coroner will find ink in my veins and blood on ........" ~ C. Astrid Weber
" Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes........." ~ Carl Sandburg
" Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance........." ~ Carl Sandburg
" Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on ........" ~ Carl Sandburg
" I've written some poetry I don't understand myself........." ~ Carl Sandburg
" Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits........." ~ Carl Sandburg
" Writing is a struggle against silence........." ~ Carlos Fuentes
" Writing is a product of silence........." ~ Carrie Latet
" If I'm trying to sleep, the ideas won't stop. If ........" ~ Carrie Latet
" Authorship is exhibitionism, and readers a species ........" ~ Carrie Latet
" Without a pen I feel naked, but it's writing that ........" ~ Carrie Latet
" Come voyeur my poems Feel free, I feel free........." ~ Carrie Latet
" Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing ........" ~ Catherine Drinker Bowen
" Always be a poet, even in prose........." ~ Charles Baudelaire
" Many books require no thought from those who read ........" ~ Charles Caleb Colton
" When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't ........" ~ Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
" A word is not the same with one writer as with another........." ~ Charles Peguy
" Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into ........" ~ Charles Simic
" An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, ........" ~ Chateaubriand
" Poetry is the language in which man explores his own ........" ~ Christopher Fry
" Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does ........" ~ Christopher Morley
" Sit down, and put down everything that comes into ........" ~ Colette
" I am a man, and alive.... For this reason I am a novelist........." ~ D.H. Lawrence
" It's impossible to write poetry in front of the TV Almost ........" ~ Daisey Verlaef
" If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don't remove ........" ~ Danzae Pace
" Anyone who believes you can't change history has never ........" ~ David Ben Gurion
" We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. ........" ~ Dead Poet's Society
" Let me walk through the fields of paper touching ........" ~ Denise Levertov
" One of the obligations of the writer is to say or ........" ~ Denise Levertov
" Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making ........" ~ Dennis Gabor
" Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal ........" ~ Don Marquis
" i never think at all when i write nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well........" ~ Don Marquis
" If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort ........" ~ Don Marquis
" You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick........." ~ Dylan Thomas
" Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed........." ~ Dylan Thomas
" English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment ........" ~ E. B. White
" A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer.... He ........" ~ E.B. White
" Be obscure clearly........." ~ E.B. White
" Writing is both mask and unveiling........." ~ E.B. White
" Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia........." ~ E.L. Doctorow
" Writers are not just people who sit down and write........." ~ E.L. Doctorow
" A poem is true if it hangs together. Information ........" ~ E.M. Forster
" If conditions aren't right The poem won't come out It ........" ~ Ed Northstrum
" Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words........." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
" The word "Verse" is used here as the term ........" ~ Edgar Allan Poe
" I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my ........" ~ Edith Södergran
" Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows........." ~ Edmund Burke
" Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love ........" ~ Edna Ferber
" He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; ........" ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
" Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast ........" ~ Eli Khamarov
" The process of writing has something infinite about ........" ~ Elias Canetti
" The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves ........" ~ Elizabeth Drew
" I try to leave out the parts that people skip........." ~ Elmore Leonard
" Publication - is the auction of the Mind of Man........." ~ Emily Dickinson
" To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in ........" ~ Emily Dickinson
" I keep little notepads all over the place to write ........" ~ Emily Logan Decens
" Ink and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes ........" ~ Emme Woodhull-Bäche
" I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to ........" ~ English Professor
" When something can be read without effort, great effort ........" ~ Enrique Jardiel Poncela
" The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, ........" ~ Ernest Hemingway
" A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the ........" ~ Ethel Wilson
" Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must ........" ~ Etty Hillesum
" A notepad by the bedside accounts for half the earnings ........" ~ Ever Garrison
" There was never a good biography of a good novelist........." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
" The artist's only responsibility is his art. He will ........" ~ Faulkner
" Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support ........" ~ Fay Weldon
" Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university ........" ~ Flannery O'Connor
" Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university ........" ~ Flannery O’Connor
" I am writing in the garden. To write as one should ........" ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
" Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that ........" ~ Francis Bacon
" Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write ........" ~ Franklin P. Adams
" Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold ........" ~ Franz Kafka
" Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?........" ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
" You could compile the worst book in the world entirely ........" ~ G.K. Chesterton
" A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but ........" ~ G.K. Chesterton
" oets have been mysteriously silent on the subject ........" ~ G.K. Chesterton
" Whatever an author puts between the two covers of ........" ~ Gail Hamilton
" Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank ........" ~ Gene Fowler
" One hates an author that's all author........." ~ George Gordon, Lord Byron
" Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, ........" ~ George Orwell
" He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry ........" ~ George Sand
" A sold poem loses half its meaning........." ~ Glade Byron Addams
" Poets are like magicians, searching for magical phrases ........" ~ Glade Byron Addams
" Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't ........" ~ Gloria Steinem
" I do not like to write - I like to have written........." ~ Gloria Steinem
" Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, ........" ~ Goethe
" Good things, when short, are twice as good........." ~ Gracián
" Writers are just people who have a whole lot on the ........" ~ Graycie Harmon
" Being an author is having angels whisper in your ear ........" ~ Graycie Harmon
" Being an author is like being in charge of your own ........" ~ Graycie Harmon
" I even shower with my pen, in case any ideas drip ........" ~ Graycie Harmon
" An author in his book must be like God in the universe, ........" ~ Gustave Flaubert
" Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly ........" ~ Gustave Flaubert
" Poetry is life distilled........." ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
" Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the ........" ~ Hannah Arendt
" So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than ........" ~ Harold Acton
" I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his ........" ~ Harold Ross
" One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in ........" ~ Hart Crane
" All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell ........" ~ Harvey Cox
" It is the little writer rather than the great writer ........" ~ Havelock Ellis
" No one means all he says, and yet very few say all ........" ~ Henry Brooks Adams
" A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely ........" ~ Henry David Thoreau
" How vain it is to sit down to write when you have ........" ~ Henry David Thoreau
" No poems can please for long or live that are written ........" ~ Horace
" If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, ........" ~ Isaac Asimov
" The wastebasket is a writer's best friend........." ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
" Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between ........" ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
" Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce ........" ~ Jack Lynch
" I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing ........" ~ Jack Smith
" Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is........." ~ James Branch Cabell
" I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words ........" ~ James Michener
" I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter........." ~ James Michener
" Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's ........" ~ James Norman Hall
" The poet doesn't invent. He listens........." ~ Jean Cocteau
" The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without ........" ~ Jean Cocteau
" Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the ........" ~ Jean Cocteau
" A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does ........" ~ Jean Cocteau
" The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth........." ~ Jean Cocteau
" A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an ........" ~ Jean Luc Godard
" Imitation is the highest form of pissing me off. ........" ~ Jen T. Verbumessor
" There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths ........" ~ Jessamyn West
" Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, ........" ~ Jessamyn West
" It seems to me that those songs that have been any ........" ~ Joan Baez
" There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess ........" ~ John Cage
" For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the ........" ~ John Cheever
" You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence ........" ~ John Ciardi
" A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room ........" ~ John K. Hutchens
" Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording ........" ~ John Keats
" The poetry of the earth is never dead........." ~ John Keats
" He that uses many words for the explaining any subject ........" ~ John Ray
" I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam ........" ~ John Updike
" Every writer I know has trouble writing........." ~ Joseph Heller
" You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some ........" ~ Joseph Joubert
" Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those ........" ~ Joseph Roux
" Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted........." ~ Jules Renard
" The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely ........" ~ Jules Renard
" An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession ........" ~ Juvenal, Satires
" Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with ........" ~ Kahlil Gibran
" A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an ........" ~ Karl Kraus
" My language is the common prostitute that I turn into ........" ~ Karl Kraus
" Women do not always have to write about women, or ........" ~ Kathryn Hughes
" Writer's block is a disease for which there is no ........" ~ Laurie Wordholt
" Critics are by no means the end of the law. Do not ........" ~ Lavina Goodell
" One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of ........" ~ Leo Tolstoy
" Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's ........" ~ Leo Tolstoy
" Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life ........" ~ Leonard Cohen
" If I had to give young writers advice, I would say ........" ~ Lillian Hellman
" The poet... may be used as a barometer, but let us ........" ~ Lionel Trilling
" Yes there is a meaning; at least for me, there is ........" ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
" What things there are to write, if one could only ........" ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
" What I like in a good author is not what he says, ........" ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
" If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad........." ~ Lord Byron
" To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, ........" ~ Lord Byron
" But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, ........" ~ Lord Byron
" Keep a diary and one day it'll keep you........." ~ Mae West
" Imaginary gardens with real toads in them........." ~ Marianne Moore
" Ink runs from the corners of my mouth There is no ........" ~ Mark Strand
" As to the adjective, when in doubt, strike it out........." ~ Mark Twain
" The time to begin writing an article is when you have ........" ~ Mark Twain
" Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined ........" ~ Mark Twain
" The difference between the right word and the almost ........" ~ Mark Twain
" There are some books that refuse to be written. They ........" ~ Mark Twain
" I notice that you use plain, simple language, short ........" ~ Mark Twain
" To get the right word in the right place is a rare ........" ~ Mark Twain
" The only cure for writer's block is insomnia........." ~ Merit Antares
" An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program ........" ~ Mignon McLaughlin
" A critic can only review the book he has read, not ........" ~ Mignon McLaughlin
" There's only one person who needs a glass of water ........" ~ Mignon McLaughlin
" There are men that will make you books, and turn them ........" ~ Miguel de Cervantes
" Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry........." ~ Muriel Rukeyser
" Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as ........" ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
" Easy reading is damn hard writing........." ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
" Your prayer can be poetry, and poetry can be your ........" ~ Noelani Day
" The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for ........" ~ Norbet Platt
" I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, ........" ~ Norman Mailer
" Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason........." ~ Novalis
" Poets aren't very useful Because they aren't consumeful ........" ~ Ogden Nash
" Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in ........" ~ Orson Scott Card
" He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others ........" ~ Oscar Wilde
" A poet can survive everything but a misprint........." ~ Oscar Wilde
" Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write ........" ~ Oscar Wilde
" I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between ........" ~ Pablo Neruda
" Poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power........." ~ Paul Engle
" A poem is never finished, only abandoned........." ~ Paul Valéry
" I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if ........" ~ Pearl S. Buck
" In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream ........" ~ Pearl S. Buck
" Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world........." ~ Percy Byshe Shelley
" Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which ........" ~ Percy Shelley
" I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the ........" ~ Peter De Vries
" Let's hope the institution of marriage survives its ........" ~ Peter S. Prescott
" Poetry is nobody's business except the poet's, and ........" ~ Philip Larkin
" Browsing the dim back corner Of a musty antique shop Opened ........" ~ Pixie Foudre
" Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history........." ~ Plato, Ion
" Our passions shape our books; repose writes them in ........" ~ Proust
" You can't write poetry on the computer........." ~ Quentin Tarantino
" Find out the reason that commands you to write; see ........" ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
" The reality is more excellent than the report........." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
" Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, ........" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
" Everything in creation has its appointed painter or ........" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
" The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite ........" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
" All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients........." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
" You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy ........" ~ Ray Bradbury
" The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones ........" ~ Ray Bradbury
" A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof........." ~ Rene Char
" The poem is the point at which our strength gave out........." ~ Richard Rosen
" I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for ........" ~ Richard Wright
" Poetry is language at its most distilled and most ........" ~ Rita Dove
" Writers will happen in the best of families........." ~ Rita Mae Brown
" It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent ........" ~ Robert Benchley
" God is the perfect poet........." ~ Robert Browning
" They lard their lean books with the fat of others' ........" ~ Robert Burton
" Poetry is what gets lost in translation........." ~ Robert Frost
" Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and ........" ~ Robert Frost
" [A poem] begins in delight and ends in wisdom........." ~ Robert Frost
" To be a poet is a condition, not a profession........." ~ Robert Frost
" The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual ........" ~ Robert Frost
" Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride ........" ~ Robert Frost
" Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their ........" ~ Robert Frost
" A poem begins with a lump in the throat........." ~ Robert Frost
" I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with ........" ~ Robert Frost
" There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry ........" ~ Robert Graves
" The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the ........" ~ Robert Penn Warren
" The poem... is a little myth of man's capacity of ........" ~ Robert Penn Warren
" Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for ........" ~ Robinson Jeffers
" The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then........" ~ Roger McGough
" If you got to talking to most cowboys, they'd admit ........" ~ Ross Knox
" No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes ........" ~ Russell Lynes
" Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who ........" ~ Sainte-Beuve
" A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point ........" ~ Salman Rushdie
" Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet ........" ~ Salvatore Quasimodo
" Books want to be born: I never make them. They come ........" ~ Samuel Butler
" When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, ........" ~ Samuel Butler
" The two most engaging powers of an author are to make ........" ~ Samuel Johnson
" Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage ........" ~ Samuel Johnson
" A man will turn over half a library to make one book........." ~ Samuel Johnson
" Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, ........" ~ Samuel Johnson
" Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth........." ~ Samuel Johnson
" When once the itch of literature comes over a man, ........" ~ Samuel Lover, Handy Andy
" A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants ........" ~ Samuel McChord Crothers
" A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants ........" ~ Samuel McChord Crothers
" Poetry: the best words in the best order........." ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
" Writing became such a process of discovery that I ........" ~ Sharon O'Brien
" Writing comes more easily if you have something to ........" ~ Sholem Asch
" [P]oets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge ........" ~ Sigmund Freud
" It is impossible to discourage the real writers - ........" ~ Sinclair Lewis
" The best style is the style you don't notice........." ~ Somerset Maugham
" A short saying often contains much wisdom........." ~ Sophocles
" A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by ........" ~ Soren Kierkegaard
" Fiction is the truth inside the lie........." ~ Stephen King
" It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged ........" ~ Stephen Mallarme
" And by the way, everything in life is writable about ........" ~ Sylvia Plath
" Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers........." ~ T. S. Eliot
" Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood........." ~ T.S. Eliot
" Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape ........" ~ T.S. Eliot
" Most editors are failed writers - but so are most ........" ~ T.S. Eliot
" If you've got a poem within you today, I can guarantee ........" ~ The Quote Garden
" Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we ........" ~ Theodore Dreiser
" Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy ........" ~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
" Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn........." ~ Thomas Gray
" If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, ........" ~ Thomas Hardy
" Mathematics and Poetry are... the utterance of the ........" ~ Thomas Hill
" Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always ........" ~ Thomas Jefferson
" A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult ........" ~ Thomas Mann
" The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction ........" ~ Tom Clancy
" If there's a book you really want to read, but it ........" ~ Toni Morrison
" To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what ........" ~ Truman Capote
" It's not plagiarism - I'm recycling words, as any ........" ~ Uniek Swain
" No man should ever publish a book until he has first ........" ~ Van Wyck Brooks
" As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from ........" ~ Virginia Woolf
" It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that ........" ~ Virginia Woolf
" When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, ........" ~ Virginia Woolf
" It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip ........" ~ Vita Sackville-West
" The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous ........" ~ Vladimir Nabakov
" A good style should show no signs of effort. What ........" ~ W. Somerset Maugham
" The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end ........" ~ W. Somerset Maugham
" The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether ........" ~ W.B. Yeats
" Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out ........" ~ W.B. Yeats
" What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?........" ~ W.H. Auden
" It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can ........" ~ W.H. Auden
" A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a ........" ~ Wallace Stevens
" To have great poets there must be great audiences ........" ~ Walt Whitman
" Every great writer is a writer of history, let him ........" ~ Walter Savage Landor
" There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down ........" ~ Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith
" Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories ........" ~ Willa Cather
" Poetry, like the moon, does not advertise anything........." ~ William Blissett
" Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, ........" ~ William Bolitho
" Who can tell the dancer from the dance?........" ~ William Butler Yeats
" Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your ........" ~ William Congreve
" The expression "to write something down" ........" ~ William Gass
" Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life........." ~ William Hazlitt
" There are thousands of thoughts lying within a man ........" ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
" Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't ........" ~ William Safire
" The good writing of any age has always been the product ........" ~ William Styron
" Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart........." ~ William Wordsworth
" Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart..........." ~ William Wordsworth
" History will be kind to me for I intend to write it........." ~ Winston Churchill
" A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else ........" ~ Yevgeny Yentushenko
" ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd ........" ~ Yolande Giovaanni, Jr.
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