Alexander Pope Quotes

I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.

There's something magical about the idea that you can write something down and someone else can read it. I'm still mildly agog about that.

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

In these times when the practice of letters declines, no rather perishes in the cities of Gaul, there has been found no scholar trained in ordered composition to present in prose or verse a picture of things which have befallen.

Anyone who doesn't read doesn't have any business writing.

Writing is more important than being a writer.

Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

I'm an actress, primarily. I love to write poetry. I've been writing poetry since I was 12 years old.

Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside that must come out.

Nothing so difficult as a beginning In poesy, unless perhaps the end.

Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling.

The poems I did write there [in Harvard] include Alphabets the 1984 Phi Beta Kappa poem and A Sofa in the Forties. And, of course, the John Harvard poem for the 350th anniversary Villanelle for an Anniversary.

To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.

There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.

Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.

The act of writing means you wish to communicate. Whether you're writing a memoir for yourself you put in a drawer, or you write a poem and you send it to a little magazine, or you write for publication, it always means - the form follows function.

Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.

Writing poetry is a state of free float.

Never think, because you cannot write a letter easily, that it is better not to write at all. The most awkward note imaginable is better than none.

He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.

Poetry is a mug's game.