Likes Quote by Kenneth Koch Download Open image “I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.” — Kenneth Koch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Likes Writing
I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given… — James Frey Copy Share Image
My own accumulation of influences is actually what made me a writer in the first place. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me. — Gerry Beckley Copy Share Image
I'm definitely influenced by lots of different things - from music, from reading, from I don't know... I have a lot of different sources… — Marko Djurdjevic Copy Share Image
I'm influenced by Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace: writers who are often not content to just stack paragraphs and have to break… — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel. — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling. — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.” / The yellow hobbyhorse rocks to and fro, and from the chimney… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
If you want to know how much I love and care for you, count the waves. — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur. — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t ready For you. I understood nothing Seemingly except my feelings You were whirling In your life I was keeping Everything in my… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't know if… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
When a person says only what others love to hear, he is largely liked; but if he loves to say what he likes only,… — Anuj Copy Share Image
In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often pick a… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
We had a farewell dinner for some of my senior staff, and generally everybody likes to talk about how cool I was. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily lives of people every… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
I went through a really good-looking phase from birth to 9. And then things went crazy. I don't know what happened, but between 9… — Cristin Milioti Copy Share Image
Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and, mistaking, the speedy march of years, often is inclined to take the… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her. — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
