Life Quote by Jay McInerney

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

— William Wordsworth

I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of what one recounts; I…

— Harold Brodkey

We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning,…

— T. S. Eliot

“I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of what one recounts; I…

— Harold Brodkey

As a novelist, where do you go to tap into memories, and impressions, and sensations? It's usually, in my experience, your early life, before…

— William Boyd

When in doubt, it is better to do the less conservative thing and to err on the side of the more colorful, possibly terrible…

— Elif Batuman

“If I knew what I was thinking [...] I would never have become a writer.”

— Amélie Nothomb

I learned to write from reading. I had no writing classes. It's part of my thinking as the writer-author, reading, but then I also…

— Lynne Tillman

I don't know if I have a memory of not thinking I was a writer - it goes that far back. I went to…

— Elizabeth Strout

I hate thinking about writer's block! I don't have writer's block much, knock on wood, but if I do, I think it's usually because…

— Cynthia Kadohata

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

— William Wordsworth

A lot of poems seem, in some sense, to pull the outside world into the interior. They aren't perhaps emotion recollected in tranquillity but…

— Robert Bringhurst