Cleverness Quote by Thom Gunn

The digital world has allowed me a connection with my reader that I'd never had before. I didn't meet the people who read my…

— Berkeley Breathed

Some of Mr. Gregory's poems have merely appeared in The New Yorker ; others are New Yorker poems: the inclusive topicality, the informed and…

— Randall Jarrell

I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a…

— Ric Ocasek

I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one I did…

— Siri Hustvedt

I've never had much attraction to writing fanfiction. I don't spend much time thinking about properties I don't own, as it's 'wasted' brain-cycles.

— Kieron Gillen

I love getting fan mail. Often, as a writer, you never know what your readers think of a book... you get critical reviews and…

— Jodi Picoult

I do that a lot of authors still do not do is allow people to write directly to me. I get about 50 fan…

— Steven Tyler

I don't now whether I am a poet or not, but I'm quite sure that I write with the transparency of the soul and…

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

“{ Letter from Fawcett to the great Robert Ingersoll , 1894 } I do so wish, that, in all these big questions, literary men…

— Edgar Fawcett

I'm such a huge fan of fan fiction, to me it's a great way for readers to become writers. It's like putting the training…

— Hugh Howey

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

— Charles Bukowski

My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me, if I…

— Natasha Trethewey