Beautiful Quote by Lawrence Osborne

I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.

— Tom Paulin

Once a poet always a poet, and even though I haven't written poems for a long time, I can nonetheless say that everything I've…

— Jack Driscoll

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

— Chris Abani

A novel takes place over time. It's a historical narrative, and it needs to have a series of peaks and valleys and the move…

— Edward Hirsch

The whole process of having to put the thing into the world seems so antithetical to the act of writing. Poetry is slightly easier,…

— Nick Laird

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

— Stephen Sondheim

“Human beings innate complexities resist reduction into simple sentences and neat paragraphs. The stories that come nearest to expressing the ambivalent nature of people…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I always write knowing that people will hear it, but also hoping they'll see it. So a lot of times I make lyrical decisions…

— Boots Riley

I'd rather not get into what I'm talking about lyrically. I think it's impossible not to demystify a song when saying what it's about.…

— Trent Reznor

I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

— Joanna Trollope

A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off.

— Peter Straub

Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading.

— Jon Foreman