Ability Quote by David Amram

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.

— Ishmael Reed

When I began to write novels, I wanted to keep that element of interaction with the reader that exists in poetry, not just for…

— Michael Ondaatje

When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he…

— Billy Collins

Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I…

— Carly Simon

When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I…

— Tom Glazer

“I used to read my poems to him; now I read him in my poems”

— Shweta Suvarna

In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this…

— Robert Fitzgerald

“When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head constantly spin with riddles…

— Alysha Speer

I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the…

— Adrienne Rich

I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then…

— Sammy Hagar

I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading.

— David Starkey