Air Quote by Vito Acconci

What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.

— James Fenton

I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as…

— Jim Jarmusch

I think being a writer was a crappy job when you just had typewriters. It was crappy when we just had ink and paper.…

— Colson Whitehead

Poetry, I thought then, and still do, is a matter of space on the page interrupted by a few well-chosen words, to give them…

— Fay Weldon

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I think poems belong as much in the news pages as the literary pages. A lot of people throw aside the literary pages! Whereas…

— Tony Harrison

Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain

— Elie Wiesel

Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.

— Louise Rosenblatt

In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, because of the marvels…

— Douglas Adams

When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of…

— Edward Hirsch

I am interested in the confines of the page and busting through/off the page as well. A writer must let go of the line…

— Denise Duhamel

One problem with writing on the computer, as I do, is that the page is never really 'blank." It is backed by all this…

— Dan Chiasson