Sasha Grey Quotes

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

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

I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

I write poetry, and I put it to a beat - I mean, that's what they call rap.

Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do.

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I write.

Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.

I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

I feel empowered to be a different kind of writer. The longer I stay here, the more light filters into my work. I feel very American. I belong.

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter.

I fell in love with hip-hop at an early age as a culture, as a sound, both from the perspective of a fan and a creative outlet.

Words are my life.

I love songwriting, and rap is part of my songwriting, but I'm not a rapper.