Night Quote by Arthur Rimbaud

I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt about something.

— May Sarton

I was writing poems as I was walking. I was able to take that restlessness, that nomadic distraction, and use that distraction in the…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Occasionally, noticing an exact identity of thought between what I felt but could not articulate and the clearly expressed idea of a writer, I…

— Gopi Krishna

I learned to build bookshelves and brought books to my room, gathering them around me thickly. I read by day and into the night.…

— Mary Oliver

“I was walking around in an almost blind, crazy rage of madness. There was a story burning a hole in my brain, and it…

— Leigh Hershkovich

And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery were the…

— Adriana Trigiani

The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read it and…

— Jodi Picoult

I didn't sit down then and start writing poems, but it was in the back of my mind.

— Edward Hirsch

The idea for a book usually bubbles up from my sub-conscious when I am drifting off to sleep. Each one has started as a…

— Marie Bradby

I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn…

— John Coltrane

When I began writing, it was a cosmic thing: Inspiration! Wham! Short spurts of time when I felt out of touch with reality, temporarily…

— Ann Reed

I had expected that at some point during the first draft a light would go on, and I would understand, finally, how to write…

— Hannah Kent