Books Quote by William Beckett Download Open image “I read a lot of prose poetry and get inspired by more-so just a state of mind.” — William Beckett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Inspiration Inspired Mind Poetry Prose Prose poetry Psychology State of mind States Writing
I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out. — Ed Westwick Copy Share Image
I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative. — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I read poetry every day. I look at it as an exercise, a kind of T'ai Chi for writers. It teaches economy of form. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
I love poetry. If my mind gets a bit tight or bound up with information or depressed with bad news, I find a good… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work… — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I write the occasional poem. I think my dabbling in poetry makes me better at screenplays. Poetry teaches the value of condensing, the importance… — Kamal Haasan Copy Share Image
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into… — Michael Tippett Copy Share Image
Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
A true measure of success is just to work hard and get my music out there and just be myself and be real. — William Beckett Copy Share Image
In the recording process I do listen to other artists a lot and other albums and albums I am loving lately, or ones that… — William Beckett Copy Share Image
I'm a goof. I talk too much. I tell stories. I tell cheesy Dad jokes. I'm theatrical and I'll mix things up and I'll… — William Beckett Copy Share Image
I wasn't really writing anything that I felt was worth it at the end, but then certain things sparked me as a solo writer… — William Beckett Copy Share Image
People can smell the bullshit and see through the curtains. People know when something's real and when something isn't, and when some dude really… — William Beckett Copy Share Image
I want to play a show at Madison Square Garden in New York, which is where the New York Knicks play. That's what I… — William Beckett Copy Share Image
I think that a great song needs the full package. I think that a great song needs everything from lyrics, to melody, to music,… — William Beckett Copy Share Image
Johnny Depp and I think Woody Allen would be fun to hang out with. — William Beckett Copy Share Image
I listen to a pretty wide variety of albums so as to get influenced by nothing particular. — William Beckett Copy Share Image
I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint. — William Beckett Copy Share Image
I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant. — William Beckett Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
