Ill Quote by Joseph Addison

In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.

— Juvenal

Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do winnow the…

— James Sharp

I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that's become part of our identity and it shouldn't be…

— David Karp

“Although I've written a few (a very few) poems over the years, I am not a natural poet...and I remain in awe of people…

— Terri Windling

When I was young, my knowledge of the literary world was a distorted tabloid sketch of dazzling fame, suffering genius, and tragic glamour. It…

— Robin Beth Schaer

“The story of the English writing system is so intriguing, and the histories behind individual words so fascinating, that anyone who dares to treat…

— David Crystal

I like bringing my poet brain and sensibility to lyrics I write.

— Jamila Woods

“Although I am capable, through long dabbling in blue magic, of imitating any prose in the world (but singularly enough not verse—I am a…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I like to write a lot of satire.

— Earl King

I always hope to come up with a style of writing that's appropriate to the material and I felt like this was. And then…

— Geoff Dyer

Poets suffer occasional delusions of angelhood and find themselves condemned to express it in the bric-a-brac tongues of the human world. Lots of them…

— Glen Duncan