Early work Quote by Kenneth Koch

My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of…

— Bill Viola

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 have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was…

— Simon Armitage

Now, I do say, "It's possible. You might be the first. I'm not saying it's impossible, but the odds are very much against you."…

— Edward Hirsch

I'm not a poet. So the writing process is a difficult one for me.

— Billy Squier

I use poetry to explain myself to myself. It is a way of investigating who you really are, what you feel, what survives the…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

I don't now whether I am a poet or not, but I'm quite sure that I write with the transparency of the soul and…

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think…

— Thom Gunn

Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.

— J. G. Ballard

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

— Robertson Davies

Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being…

— Vikram Seth

Sometimes I write, but once it's done, I usually find my writing to be so bad that I hide it somewhere and never look…

— Gideon Glick