Shakespeare - The Early Years

Easy reading is damn hard writing. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

God is love, but get it in writing. - Gypsy Rose Lee

Writing is a struggle against silence. - Carlos Fuentes

I like Beethoven, especially the poems. - Ringo Starr

This poem will never reach its destination. - Voltaire

Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom. - Robert Frost

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography. - Steven Wright

Poetry is the clear expression of mixed feelings. - W H Auden

Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread. - Ion Tiriac

There is creative reading as well as creative writing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fiction writing is great, you can make up almost anything. - Ivana Trump

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost

Writing is throwing spaghetti at a wall to see what sticks. - Kelly E. Lindner

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. - Robert Frost

Prose is a museum, where all the old weapons of poetry are kept. - T.E. Hulme

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. - Edward Dahlberg

There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. - Booker T Washington

Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world. - Wallace Stevens

There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either. - Robert Graves

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. - Sir Francis Bacon

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. - Ernest Hemingway

I write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy. - Groucho Marx

Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved. - Christopher P. Rubero

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. - Ernest Hemingway

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. - Jules Renard

Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces. - Sandra Cisneros

The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare... neither knew chocolate. - Sandra Boynton

Playing Shakespeare is so tiring. You never get a chance to sit down unless you're a king. - Josephine Hull

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. - Ivern Ball

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize. - Oscar Wilde

Of all the useless things a person can do, limerick writing is right up there with golf and fishing. - Garrison Keillor

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. - John Updike

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. - Ernest Hemingway

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. - Paul Dirac

My favourite poem is the one that starts, "Thirty days hath September" because it actually tells you something. - Groucho Marx

Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking and writing. - Isaac B Singer

Doing well with blogging is not about writing one key post, it is about performing day after day and helping a few people at a time. - Aaron Wall

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. - Donald Trump

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing. - Benjamin Franklin