Bird Quote by Sharon Olds

Whether it's a letter, song lyrics, part of a novel, or instructions on how to fix a kitchen sink, it's writing. You keep your…

— Jimmy Buffett

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I just started writing stuff to kill time on summer evenings. This is why I'm always telling people who ask me what they need…

— John Darnielle

Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem.

— Anne Sexton

There were points in my career where I thought, 'Maybe I'm done. Maybe I've written everything there is to write.' Now I've learned that…

— Sylvia Day

“ Work does not “give” dignity to our lives through the excellence or happiness it fosters. The dignity of work comes less from its…

— Russell Muirhead

“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: ‘I have to go to work—as a human being. What do I…

— Marcus Aurelius

When you write, don't say, "I'm going to write a poem." That attitude will freeze you right away. Sit down with the least expectation…

— Natalie Goldberg

What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a…

— Maya Angelou

“Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.”

— John Gregory Dunne

I am always writing no matter what I am doing and no matter what it is for.

— Margaret Cho

I feel like I am in the service of the poem. The poem isn't something I make. The poem is something I serve.

— Jane Hirshfield