Blessing Quote by Joan Larkin

“My love of publishing goes back to my first job on the hometown newspaper when I was a 16-year-old cub reporter, but I caught…

— Phil Cousineau

I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.

— Frederick Busch

Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet…

— Jonathan Franzen

Just as we don't spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the…

— Seth Godin

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.

— Billy Collins

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

— Thomas Bulfinch

It is always better to write for the whole of society than for the poetry-reading public.

— Tony Harrison

Your worst enemy as a writer - especially one working online a lot of the time - is obscurity.

— Ryan North

I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily…

— Samantha Shannon

Some of our writers are starting to incorporate elements of social media, etc. in the work itself, which is all for the good, I…

— George Saunders

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

— Fay Weldon

Great poets are great copy editors.

— Dejan Stojanovic