Exception Quote by Jack Prelutsky

I've always been a 'write first' artist: the drawings are always in service of the writing.

— Jeffrey Brown

I'm not a poet. So the writing process is a difficult one for me.

— Billy Squier

I'm a poet first and foremost, before the modelling.

— Jessica White

I always write the lyrics first. There are one or two exceptions over the years, but that's pretty much the way it's been. The…

— Bruce Cockburn

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.

— Mary Oliver

I prefer always to think that I am creating a book, not a series of stand-alone poems.

— Martha Ronk

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

— Howard Nemerov

I'm a poet, first and foremost as a writer. That's who I am. That's what I'm most comfortable writing.

— Dante Basco

Usually the poems are written in one sitting. There's always a groping towards some satisfying ending. But I'd say the hardest part is not…

— Billy Collins

Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image.

— Norman Lock

I write one poem a year, usually in January or February.

— Emily Susan Rapp

I write separately from the inking up. I'm sure this varies from cartoonist to cartoonist; I find that the writing is the hard part…

— Bill Watterson