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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.
I've written and translated my own poems from English to German. It's basically a summation of my identity as it stands now.
It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
Not writing is as important as writing - go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
I first came across 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' in college, with other anthologized poems by Yeats.
I treat both acting and writing as a creation - writing is just another element or aspect of it.
My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.
I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.
Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography.
Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.
Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems.
Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.
I don't mean that to be egotistical, but I'm not writing fluff. I'm not writing for 8-year-olds. I'm a woman and I'm a rock girl.
I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.
I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.
I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out.
I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box.
I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.
Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.
To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—
Poems are perfect for something to listen to while you're walking around because they don't take very long.
I believe in rooting poems in actual places, even if you move into some other extraordinary realm.
Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger.
I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.
In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.
I always did poetry, and [rap music is] pretty much hip-hop melody with poems.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers.
I guess my poems feel to me a bit like they are doing something in relation to experience, i.e. time.
I am writing things on my own, but I really believe co-writing makes you a better writer.
Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.
I know, basketball is a dance. I didn't understand the significance of that type of training at first. I was supposed to read poems.
One of the ready advantages of writing a road or quest story is that it mirrors the experience of writing a novel.
You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.
I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.
I've only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays.
I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.
I don't know if I have writing habits. Writing is impossible and every time I have to do it I kind of forget how.
Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be.
I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication.
These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.
each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
I've been writing articles for newspapers and magazines. And writing is a very beautiful way of expression.
There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.
I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.
When you put a book together and arrange it, there's a lot of anxiety and turmoil about what order the poems should be in.
I'm usually just writing lyrics alone in my room, but I'm happy to be producing and writing chords anywhere.
My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world.
I'm a fan of writing, and writing letters, because I hate when I'm trying to get a thought out, and I can't.
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.
I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it.
There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.
But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.
If I don't know who I'm writing for, I make it up and pick somebody I'm writing for. That's really the only way to do it.
I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.
When you have a writing partner and you're writing a comedy, your goal is to make each other laugh.
