Character Quote by Billy Collins

I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to…

— Isabel Allende

I thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

— Billy Collins

For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.

— Langston Hughes

I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

— Billy Collins

I was miserable as a kid.

— Maurice Sendak

I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

— Felix Dennis

I had a pretty happy, loved childhood.

— Tana French

I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on,…

— Alex Flinn

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

— Anonymous

I had a really happy childhood.

— Tom Fletcher

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

— Rick Springfield

I was sort of a miserable teenager.

— Colson Whitehead