Book Quote by Ada Limon

I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years without writing…

— May Sarton

There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels strange -…

— Joan Larkin

I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm…

— Sherman Alexie

I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was…

— Simon Armitage

I'm not a writer that writes every day. I just kind of have ideas. I jot them down when I have them, and when…

— Dee Rees

I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've…

— Edward Hirsch

As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want…

— Victoria Chang

I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.

— May Sarton

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

— Ellen Hopkins

I'm finding that writing poetry is strengthening my songwriting, because you're learning to make a piece of writing work on a page with nothing…

— PJ Harvey

I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and…

— Kacey Musgraves

I don't write every day, but if I go more than a couple of months without writing, I begin to get a little nervous.…

— Elaine Equi