Composition Quote by Horace

“She kept public radio on so it sounded like someone was sitting next to her, engaging her in intriguing conversation.”

— Abby Slovin

Let your poem be kept nine years.

— Horace

It has been nine years since the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregated schools, yet less than ten per cent of the Negro students in…

— Malcolm X

I started publishing stories in small magazines early on, but after seven or eight or nine years you feel like you need a little…

— Ben Fountain

I have been doing this since I was nine years old. So whatever the role is, I am going to do the best I…

— Darius McCrary

The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries…

— Anonymous

If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's…

— Douglas Coupland

Since I spent eighteen years of my life as a child, and nine years of that life as a pretty sexually active gay child,…

— Samuel R. Delany

I was called a bookish child. Mother sent me to a ballet teacher in Cincinnati when I was nine years old. I guess I…

— Vera-Ellen

You go ahead. I'd rather not be shot out of a tube into a pool filled with a bunch of nine-year-olds' urine.

— Justin Halpern

My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough to do…

— Chris Abani

Because nine years ago, I walked up to the most beautiful girl in the bar, and tonight she's still the only person I want…

— Julie James