Ellen Hopkins Quotes

So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing.

Working with language requires beauty for me.

Every single path is so different, but I would definitely say that the idea of what a writer is or should be is not a thing anymore. Everyone is redefining publishing, writing, and storytelling in general.

Poets are not meant to be in competition.

I'm a poet first and foremost, before the modelling.

I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.

Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

I like poems and keep sharing them online.

I'm definitely a writer. I don't even know how to freestyle.

I'm clearly not a writer, but I'm always a fan of them.

Glenn Slater is my lyricist who, of the new young lyricists coming along, is the most exciting, I think.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

Nothing beats a good part with good writers that you get to come back to year after year.

At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.

I'm a poet, first and foremost as a writer. That's who I am. That's what I'm most comfortable writing.

In its fifty-first year of publication, 'The Paris Review' continues to search for new ways to bring together writers and readers.

I've always been a writer. I've always done writing or spoken-word, hip-hop stuff with my friends.

I'm a poet.

Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert hall or even for TV.

Anyone who holds a pen these days thinks he or she is a poet.

Poetry was my dirty little secret when I was a fiction writer at Iowa, and then fiction became my dirty little secret when I started writing more poetry and working for 'Rookie'.

I used to spend a lot of time dreaming and writing poetry.

Pittsburgh was the first chance to be in a classroom with other writers, to have conversations with other writers. In fact, after graduate school, I lived in Japan, Ohio and New Orleans, and only upon leaving Pittsburgh did I see what a special community it was for poets, so I was eager to come back. It's a strong arts community across the board.