Made Quote by David Nicholls

“She no longer think that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.”

— David Nicholls

“Good God, 'the elusive thing'. She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing…

— David Nicholls

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

— Nicholas Sparks

I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her conversation, to…

— Anonymous

At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.

— Ian Mcewan

...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage…

— Alan Bennett

“Her short path through life had been written and it was not her right to know the meaning, only the outcome.”

— Stuart Land

His writer's words poured over her like poetry, and she couldn't find a single wisecrack to put up between them.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her conversation, to…

— PG Wodehouse

“She lives in the poetry she cannot write.”

— Oscar Wilde

She [Carol Parsinan] somehow read my poems and came back to me and convinced me that I could be a poet, that I had…

— Edward Hirsch

In another time and place, she might have felt differently, but thinking along those lines was pointless now.

— Nicholas Sparks