I like to write poetry.

“If you yourself paint or write poetry perhaps, you'll know how it feels to want to produce something ad be frustrated; your mind sulks…

— Kenneth Lillington

Everybody won’t like everything you write. Some people won’t like anything you write. Get over it.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished.

— Richard Price

I digress a lot - it's how I experience the world. I would like to write in a way that will convey that to…

— Claire Messud

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it…

— Ruth Ozeki

I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like…

— John Steinbeck

The question does arise if how and why to write poetry in this time. It feels both completely essential and also quite difficult. But…

— Matthew Zapruder

I was born in New Orleans, but I grew up in Hawaii. That was a paradise. That's a paradise I keep inside of me…

— Barbara Hamby

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

— Wally Lamb

You make me want to write bad poetry.

— Anonymous

Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that thought-out. I feel like the way I…

— Langhorne Slim

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our…

— Rodney Atkins

I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems.

— Norman Lock

I sing, I clean house, I write poetry. I cry. And I tell everyone I can, "I Believe in YOU."

— Robin Lim