Hook Quote by Chance The Rapper

Lyrics have got to be simple and catchy. A hook is more important than an overall concept or story.

— Galcher Lustwerk

There are people who think it's easier to write books in verse, and it's definitely not.

— Ellen Hopkins

The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines away and…

— Dr. Seuss

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

— James Payn

Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud.

— Sidney Lanier

“The purpose of this hook is not to produce cookie-cutter communicators, all polished and perfect models of the manual. The purpose is to help…

— Carol J. Kent

I believe most things can be said in a few lines.

— Enzo Ferrari

Verse is a mechanism by which we can create interpretative illusions suggesting profoundities of response and understanding which far exceed the engagement or research…

— John Constable

“Much which is unworthy in human life might be avoided if people would only accustom themselves to talking in verse”

— Isak Dinesen

In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST…

— Ezra Pound

Sometimes I'll rhyme on the joint and take my verse off it, like 'Nah, it didn't work.' I do that a lot to keep…

— The Alchemist

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.

— Kenneth Rexroth