Enough Quote by John D'Agata

There are many poets that use as my models. In my first book of poems, I had several for the "Sleepwalkers," I had several…

— Edward Hirsch

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of messages.”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in…

— Rachel Cusk

I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that.

— Edward Hirsch

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. ”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here,…

— Hilary Mantel

When I was in graduate school, my thesis included both poetry and essays. Influenced by the personal essays of James Baldwin and Norman Mailer,…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

“Of course, a literary work is a kind of nest: an elaborately and painstakingly woven nest of words incorporating chunks and fragments of the…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.

— Joan Didion

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

— Manuel Puig

When I get interested in a new topic I teach a class on it. There's a graduate seminar I teach in which the students…

— Matthea Harvey

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.

— Michael Moore