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I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

— Philip Levine

I used to write on pads with a pen but had trouble reading the words the next day. Years later, Bob Dylan taught me…

— Leon Russell

At the beginning, there was no chance I'd get published so I thought I'd give it a go live. I had to perform in…

— John Cooper Clarke

If I weren't musical, then I would have just published a book, you know? But I'm lucky enough to play piano, and so I…

— Benjamin Clementine

I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring.

— Carrie Brownstein

I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.

— May Sarton

There's nothing like finally getting to write and perform your own material, it's always been the dream.

— Katy Wix

I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real gift, and…

— Ann Powers

I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.

— Robert Bly

I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

I always knew that was what I wanted to do - to write, particularly poetry.

— Derek Walcott

Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love of writing…

— Khaled Hosseini