Friendship Quote by Doug Stanton

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

— Howard Nemerov

When I was ten years old, my family left a cold, damp prefab in West Fife and moved to Corby, Northamptonshire, where my father…

— John Burnside

I started writing - I began my career at the age of 20, on April 1st, 1965, when... My sister was going to Fordham…

— August Wilson

My mum came to Britain from Clarendon, in the south of Jamaica, to make a better life for her family.

— Lenny Henry

My second year of Ryerson, I still lived at my folks' place. I went to the attic to find some prop for a play…

— Eric McCormack

I remember very vividly. I was here in New York. Nancy Holt called me and - I feel unhappy thinking about it - she…

— Virginia Dwan

I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000…

— Gordon Getty

Mum and Dad ran a seaside hotel in Anstruther in Fife. It was a family run business, so I worked in the kitchen and…

— Edith Bowman

Robert Frost really started this whole thing rolling. He was, I believe, the first poet who started going to colleges. Before that, poets didn't…

— Billy Collins

Living here in Cambridge, you had to have an identity. It was not enough to be a wife. So I did a Ph.D. in…

— Jane Hawking

My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books,…

— Sarah Dessen

I was in King Lear with Sir Tom Courtenay at The Royal Exchange in Manchester. In fact, that's where I met my husband. I…

— Ashley Jensen