Certain Quote by Matthea Harvey

A poem is like a person. The more you know someone, the more you realize there is always something more to know and understand.…

— Matthew Zapruder

Looking across the many strands of poetry, we can never be certain which poems were only read in private and which were performed -…

— Michael Rosen

“Certain poems and lines of poetry seem as solid and miraculous to me as church altars or the coronation of queens must seem to…

— Sylvia Plath

Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can access the…

— Aimee Bender

I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of the experience. For any normal…

— James Jones

My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential for the…

— Gretchen Rubin

Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is…

— Gabriela Mistral

“Q: What's the biggest myth about writing? A: That there's any wildness attached to it. Writing tends to be very deliberate." [ Colm Tóibín,…

— Colm Tóibín

As you get drawn more and more into other activities, like political activities, very demanding, you have to find different rhythms of writing; I…

— Wole Soyinka

Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.

— Colm Toibin

English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a long time,…

— Zadie Smith

No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called history. Yet…

— Thomas Sowell