Envelopes Quote by Philip Larkin

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This…

— Ring Lardner

I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope…

— Adrian Tomine

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for…

— Edward Hirsch

I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies.…

— Maya Angelou

I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.

— David Wilkerson

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

— Tom Glazer

You should go from place to place recovering the poems that have been written for you to which you can affix your signature. Don't…

— Leonard Cohen

I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature…

— Andrew Motion

People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I…

— Rita Dove

I don't know if I've ever written anything that's not a bill! I do write stories but I don't put a stamp on them.…

— Channing Tatum

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.

— Theodore Sturgeon

I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to the arriving…

— Amy Lowell