Carver Quote by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

I have a vast 'bone pile' of stillborn or abandoned poems along with jottings and wisps from the great beyond that I tend to…

— Maxine Kumin

Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky…

— Anne Fadiman

“Art is long. Life is short, but it deserves our attentive devotion. Embrace life. No person has a monopoly on wisdom. Despite the plethora…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

We all have our muses. My grandmother and my mother are the people I write for. I'll never have to worry about who buys…

— Nikki Giovanni

Writers need their totems, their altars. Mine, I feel, share the same randomness and utility of those belonging to painters I know, who are…

— Kevin Young

As artists we have an extraordinary and rare privilege to tell the stories of our people, our land, our culture. They grip us, tear…

— Mena Massoud

“At times like this you desperately need Art. You seek to reconnect with your spiritual illusions, and you wish fervently that something might rescue…

— Muriel Barbery

There's been this steady metamorphosis from just surviving to being a craftsman and, ultimately, the hope is to be an artist in what you…

— R.A. Dickey

All that I've done in my life thus far, all the poems and all the pictures, are not so much an intermingling of my…

— Gerard Malanga

I'm one of the strongest advocates for the arts you'll ever find!

— Mike Huckabee

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be…

— Nick Cave

I discovered there are some messages, left by other artists. I've just started to draw, say, to share the visions with them, or to…

— Pawel Althamer