Book Quote by Carole Spearin McCauley

I always thought that I could write a novel. In my case, it was misguided. I do believe that the best nonfiction is not…

— Ron Rosenbaum

But most weeks I've gone through 12 books, maybe even 15 some weeks, depending on the length. So I go through my long form,…

— Maria Popova

And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that…

— George Saunders

“Forget math and peotry. Especially poetry.”

— C. J. Redwine

“Literature, especially poetry, and lyric poetry most of all, is a kind of family joke, with little or no value outside its own language-group.”

— George Orwell

Especially once those poetry events began, because, yeah, the stuff was still on the page, but the page was starting to spill into real…

— Vito Acconci

“Bootlicking is only a way to get published, not to become a writer”

— Himmilicious

I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the…

— Jacques Derrida

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

— Misha Collins

My idea is simply - is very simple - is that the books of poetry should be published in far greater volume and be…

— Joseph Brodsky

If you read three books a day you couldn't read all the poetry that's being published.

— Robert Hass

'Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the…

— Eric Brown