Virginia Woolf Quotes

I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.

That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.

I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.

No sooner had I stepp'd into these pleasures Than I began to think of rhymes and measures: The air that floated by me seem'd to say 'Write! thou wilt never have a better day.

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.

I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.

Literature, of course, is not a contest.

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.

I like to think I put some of myself in every character.

In one sense, every character you create will be yourself. You've never murdered, but your murderer's rage will be drawn from memories of your own extreme anger. Your love scenes will contain hints of your own past kisses and sweet moments.

No matter what's happening in my life, I can always get lost in the romances of my characters.

I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

Early on I realized when you write a song about someone, it flatters them on some level, and gives you a lot of room to move within a relationship. A song can kind of get the girl, for sure.