"While the novelist is banging on his typewriter,……" — Billy Collins

"While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane."

— Billy Collins

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57 Quotes by Billy Collins

Billy Collins has 57 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Death is what makes life fun.
I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil.
It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere…
A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.
When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time…
It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.
I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a…
One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and…
Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different…
Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. Its a way of enticing a reader into a poem so…
I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word accessible.
I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and…

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More Banging Quotes

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How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm. — Malin Akerman
It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door. — David Hackworth
When I was 15, I left school to start a magazine, and it became a success because I wouldn't take… — Richard Branson
I'm not a person who believes in the great difference between women and men as editors. But I do think… — Thelma Schoonmaker
You have to keep banging away at something until you get it to work. I think women are maybe better… — Thelma Schoonmaker
This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it… — Matt LeBlanc
There's a constant chatter in our house, whether it's giggling or screaming or crying or banging. I love it. I… — Brad Pitt
I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I was very conventional because I came from a… — Jane Birkin
If you are in front of a wall that you cannot get past, would you just keep banging your head… — David Belle
I was banging seven-gram rocks, because that’s how I roll. I have one speed, I have one gear: Go. — Charlie Sheen
When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older. — Deborah Kerr
My career has suddenly started to be the one that I'd always wanted, not in terms of level of success,… — Rufus Sewell

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