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Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short…

— Annie Besant

“From hip-hop, I drew my earliest sense of what writing should mean. Grammar was never the point. Grammar was for the schoolmen and their…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors arrive at…

— Toni Morrison

“A writer's style should be direct and personal, his imagery rich and earthy, and his words simple and vigorous. The greatest writers have the…

— Ernest Hemingway

I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.

— Erica Jong

the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended…

— Thornton Wilder

Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual…

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part…

— Kenneth Koch

I see the progress typical in some of my poems as starting with something simple and moving into something more demanding. This is certainly…

— Billy Collins

“Poetic style, when address'd to the Soul, is less definite form, outline, sculpture, and becomes vista, music, half-tints, and even less than half- tints.…

— Walt Whitman

I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great interest. I…

— Kingsley Amis