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  • Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Running Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • Remember you love writing. It wouldn't be worth it if you didn't. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back. Remember writing doesn't love you. It doesn't care. Nevertheless, it can behave with remarkable generosity. Speak well of it, encourage others, pass it on.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : A.L. Kennedy Quotes , Love You Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Writing Quotes , Drug Quotes
  • To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must know that dungheaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Passion Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • Richard A. Posner is an extraordinary person. If he did not exist, it would be hard to believe that he could. (...) He writes with a flair that puts most journalists to shame and a depth of knowledge that puts most professors to shame.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Ryan Quotes , Believe Quotes , Writing Quotes