Constant Quote by J. M. Coetzee

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

— Andrew Motion

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth Being an author is like being in charge of your own personal insane…

— L.A. Dale

However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to…

— Kenzaburo Oe

“The genius is apparent from page one. . . . A seamless fusion of virtuosity and insight. . . . If William Wordsworth were…

— Milo Behr

I am very willing to admit that I have some poetical abilities, and as few - if any - writers, either moral or political,…

— Robert Burns

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

— Elbert Hubbard

“Writers by nature are subversive, observant, and discerning, and their voice contains that.”

— Amy Tan

Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody. "Your very own words," indeed ! And who are you?

— Brion Gysin

When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.

— Howard Nemerov

Language is properly the servant of thought, but not unfrequently becomes its master. The conceptions of a feeble writer are greatly modified by his…

— William Benton Clulow

Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.

— Anonymous

Maybe it's because we as writers are alone so often, are so attuned to listening to the run of our own thoughts, that we…

— Les Standiford