Echoes Quote by Anonymous

A good poem about failure is a success.

— Philip Larkin

Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.

— Erica Jong

“Writing is a failure. Writing is not only useless, it's spoiled paper.”

— Anonymous

Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.

— Kate Tempest

“Failure is nothing more than a prelude to success—and a poetic one at that.”

— Michael Parrish DuDell

You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can…

— Kathy Mattea

“Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade...It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.

— Mason Cooley

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.

— Arnold Bennett

If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway.

— Philip Pullman

“My advice to writers is this: Walk, talk, breathe, laugh, cry, fall, rise, fail, succeed, run, jump, love, hate, hide, seek, learn, work, play,…

— S. Alex Martin

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

— Andrew Motion