I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.
~ Louise Brown
I was born to travel and write verse.
~ Théophile Gautier
That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.
~ Lynn Abbey
Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.
~ Franklin Pierce Adams
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
~ Anthony Burgess
I write songs for people who drive in cars. I really do.
~ Melissa Etheridge
Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about.
~ Alan Bennett
There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.
~ Henry R. Luce
When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
~ Umberto Eco
We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive.
~ Jim Harrison
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.
~ Seamus Heaney
I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there.
~ Aaron Neville
I like to write poetry.
~ Rebecca Ferguson
I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.
~ Colin Quinn
Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.
~ Nancy Lublin
I write a lot of environmental stories.
~ Peter Heller
I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.
~ Beverly Cleary
