Quote by Dennis Lehane

“The written word might as well have been my veins, and ink my blood.”

— Ronnell D. Porter

“The early word catches the poem.”

— Kevin Ansbro

“So I'd grown up eating my words, and it wasn't until later that that I realized how many had gotten backed up inside me.…

— Lisa Ko

“Sometimes his words were like single lines of poetry.”

— Keira Cass

“Every morning she pulled a delicate cup from its brass hook and filled it, hoping that it would be dark and deep and secret…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I jumped up and ran after the words that trailed like the dangling string from an air ball, up and up, from branch to…

— Virginia Woolf

“Writing. Opening a vein in your wrist with a spoon.”

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

“In the manner of one recognizing a line from a familiar poem in a strange book.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Nature constantly, pleasantly surprises me with new material for rhymes. I have paper and pencil in hand whenever I journey down to the creek.”

— Nancy L. Young

“One line lands in a word and one word lands in a line and there you have it the secret of poetry”

— Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore

“I felt a curious thrill, as if something had stirred in me, half wakened from sleep. There was something very remote and strange and…

— J.R.R. Tolkien