Couple Quote by Patricia McConnell

I was in juvenile detention center, and I was in Rikers Island. And there was an anthology written by the inmates called 'The Pen,'…

— Lemon Andersen

“I am thinking of poets who haven't written well in years but who rubbed against the sun twenty years ago-- Aren't they in their…

— B.J. Ward

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

The night in prison was novel and interesting enough… I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which never circulated…

— Henry David Thoreau

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

— Jeffrey Archer

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

— Mary Archer

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

Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.

— Roberto Bolano

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

— E.J. Norris

“The worst is when people - knowingly or not - carry prison inside themselves. - 9-10 P.M. Poems ”

— Nâzım Hikmet

I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for…

— Thom Gunn

“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