Friendship Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that.

— Channing Tatum

I am not a writer except when I write.

— Juan Carlos Onetti

There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels strange -…

— Joan Larkin

I don't really do anything that isn't about writing, and I don't really know who I am if I'm not thinking about writing.

— Jamaica Kincaid

Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling,…

— Santha Rama Rau

Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's…

— Philip Levine

You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to…

— Edward Hirsch

When people ask what you do, tell them you're a writer. Put yourself on the line. Make a commitment.

— Janet Evanovich

I'm a struggling poet. I've never shown my work to anyone. I write it all for myself and I'm not interested in showing it…

— Kunal Kapoor

When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.

— Natalie Goldberg

If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.

— Mary Webb

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't…

— Aleksandar Hemon