Long time Quote by Laurence Fishburne

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

— Bobby McFerrin

I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.

— J. Michael Straczynski

When I first started writing in my early 20s it was literary criticism for a very eccentric magazine called Books And Bookmen, which allowed…

— Jonathan Meades

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate…

— Criss Jami

Increasingly, those who used to teach and write critical or theoretical texts are writing fiction, poetry and so on; and kinds of texts are…

— Nicholas Royle

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they…

— Rita Dove

The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.

— Flannery O'Connor

I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a writer -…

— Dylan Moran

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should…

— Wallace Stegner

Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.

— Anonymous

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

— Vanessa M. Chattman

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

— Willa Cather