Assuming Quote by Paul Simon

Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky…

— Anne Fadiman

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think…

— Ray Manzarek

I think every writer lives for the thought that there will be a moment when somebody reads something on the page and says, "Yes!"

— Marianne Williamson

I do feel that now and I feel that this development of recording poems, of speaking poems at readings, of having records of poets,…

— Sylvia Plath

“Real writers write. Period. No, the muse does not come to visit everyday. She’s a lazy, precocious flirt. You cannot get into the habit…

— Darynda Jones

Poet? No. Writer? No. I am just a dreamer.

— Raghib Clitso

I have a vast 'bone pile' of stillborn or abandoned poems along with jottings and wisps from the great beyond that I tend to…

— Maxine Kumin

“For those who do not write and who never have been stirred by the creative urge, talk of muses seems a figure of speech,…

— Dan Simmons

“Writing is both wonderful and awful; you go from feeling inspired by the muses to feeling totally dull and boring.”

— Bea Cannon

Jorge Luis Borges wrote a poem when he was in his 80s about one day writing the book that would justify him. This was…

— Theodora Goss

I still believe many poets begin in fear and hope: fear that the poetic past will turn out to be a monologue rather than…

— Eavan Boland

“The hours spent forming a written work can make one obsessive, distracted, compulsive, and neurotic even, especially when it comes to those rare, precious…

— Richelle E. Goodrich