Lawrence Durrell Quotes

Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff!

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.

I'm trying to do what Frank O'Hara did and remind myself there there's a lot of good stuff. I write about New York for my own mental health.

I'm more focused or try to be more focused on my acting and writing and comedy and let the other stuff fall where it may.

For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.

When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

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

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

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

If you're a songwriter, you have to do homework. You can exist for a while on the inspiration, but at some point, you have to sit down and have the discipline to write - to finish the poem, as they say.

I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

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

I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe.

A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.

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

At the end of the day, I want to be known for my ability to create life from words.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

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

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.