About Quote by Lemon Andersen

The only thing I remember writing in prison is a couple of poems for an inmate magazine they did once a year.

— Patricia McConnell

“I remember when I was probably about ten years old I had a pen pal, and writing letters back and forth with him was…

— Ellen DeGeneres

“It’s a sign of weakness to feel stuff, in prison. To care. To admit you’re lonely, or sad, or that you’re aching for somebody.…

— Cara McKenna

Most incarcerated women have stories that are similar to mine. They suffered great trauma as children.

— Susan Burton

“The bars of jail shall make you frail. Now that's poetry for you.”

— E.J. Norris

During the '80s I wrote Memoirs from the Women's Prison. This is one of my most important books. It came out in Arabic in…

— Nawal El Saadawi

I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison.

— Freddy Fender

“What poet was it who wrote there's no pain worse than the pain of a broken heart? Sentimental shit. He should have spent more…

— joe abercrombie

I went to jail at 17. While I was there, I discovered that I could write. Once I started making some songs, other inmates…

— Jay IDK

My personal story is that my father was a heroin addict and a heroin dealer and has been in and out of prison my…

— Daniel Beaty

After you have been incarcerated for so long, whatever story is told in the aftermath is beautiful.

— Rhys Ifans

I wrote a lot of lyrics in prison, but they'd all be like, 'Crawls upon the shoulders, hatred in the eyes.' I wrote about…

— Ian Brown