There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.
~ Robert Graves
Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. ~ Virginia Woolf
“The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That’s how we learn.” Nikki Giovanni
“Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
One day a long time from now you’ll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That’s when you’ll finally produce the work you’re capable of. ~ J. D. Salinger
It’s better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.
~ L. P. Hartly
“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.” ~ Gustave Flaubert
“My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.” ~ Susan Sontag
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
~ Ernest Hemingway
“A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.” ~ Alain de Botton
