I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I…

The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear.

— Bryant H. McGill

You have to evolve as an artist, and this is really a lifelong process.

— Mary Beth McKenzie

I'm still an artist who's searching, trying to evolve, an artist who - nine times out of ten - is dissatisfied with her work,…

— Audra McDonald

“The Best Thing I love about being a writer and a poet is, I can make up my own words to fit my imagination.”

— Ocean Crisstopher Poet

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own…

— Barbara Kingsolver

That choice to be ready to reject all other purposes, in favor of the possibilities of language freed from utility, is when the writer…

— Matthew Zapruder

We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will.…

— Harry Crews

“The Writer and Poet is excusable only if he is Successful. Makes Money.” Within”

— Linda Wagner-Martin

I always admire writers. My father was a writer, a poet. I always admire people who can clearly state their mind.

— Ai Weiwei

As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then…

— Kenneth Koch

Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only…

— Robert E. Howard

'Rather You Than Me' just speaks for my natural instinct to survive, but it's also me being a writer, me being a poet -…

— Rick Ross

The inimitable writer Maxine Hong Kingston published a book in 2002 with the title To Be the Poet. However, in contrast to the transformatory…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will.…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?” The question…

— Anonymous