Head Quote by John Cooper Clarke

Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it.

— Richard Hugo

“In the midst of the ubiquitous dealings with prostituted signs, the thing-poem was capable of opening up the prospect of returning to credible experiences…

— Peter Sloterdijk

A poem is a flexible thing, and a poem is a poem.

— Juan Felipe Herrera

It's really hard for me to finish a song unless I have a strong visual in my head while I'm writing it.

— Melanie Martinez

When you sit down to write a film, you direct it in your head. If you are writing a scene, you are watching the…

— Leigh Whannell

As for not getting things right: I constantly rerun social situations/conversations I experience/have throughout my head, and I'm always writing them down in notebooks…

— Marie Calloway

“Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for writing, you…

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

And the writers are good in that it's easy to memorize, and good writing has an innate rhythm to it. And I've always felt…

— Glenn Close

I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming…

— Stevie Wonder

I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a writer telling…

— Sol Stein

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your…

— Jason Robert Brown

They're very different things, a poem and a song, you wouldn't think they would be, but they are.

— John Cooper Clarke