Able Quote by Mary Ruefle

I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.

— Tana French

I'm really lucky in that I can do lots of different things. It must be really hard to just be a poet or just…

— Mark Haddon

What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things…

— Jonathan Lethem

I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day;…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I'm a very lucky guy. I get to write music that I love, and lo and behold, people seem to really like it. I…

— Corey Taylor

Writing and playing songs is something that I've loved doing since the day I started. It's never been a chore; it's always a hobby.…

— George Ezra

I write plays and poetry at the same time, and I'm always refining, but I'm not obsessive about it. It's what I like to…

— Derek Walcott

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

— Mario Benedetti

I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.

— Billy Sherwood

There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels strange -…

— Joan Larkin

I went through a bad period where I was just not writing; I couldn't create anything. I was out of ideas. But when I…

— Allan Holdsworth

I write poetry to figure things out. It's what I use as a navigating tool in my life, so when there's something that I…

— Sarah Kay