Kurt Vonnegut
Author: cwq
“The nearer a writer gets to life, the greater he becomes as an artist.”
Stephen Crane
“I want my poems to be wiser than I am, to know more about themselves than I do.”
John Hollander
“The rewards of any warrior. The word that best describes my feeling of having written is triumphant — triumphant on the level of Alexander the Great. Having overcome your worst fear, the thing you are most vulnerable to, that is the definition of heroic. Also, it’s such a worthwhile human activity. The most.”
Fran Lebowitz
“Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
Sylvia Plath
“The act of writing puts you in confrontation with yourself, which is why I think writers assiduously avoid writing.”
Fran Lebowitz
“Instead of writing it wrong six times and then writing it right, I think it wrong six times and then write it right the seventh time.”
Fran Lebowitz
“Poetry is the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an overclothed blindness to a naked vision that depends in its intensity on the strength of the labour put into the creation of the poetry. My poetry is, or should be, useful to me for one reason: it is the record of my individual struggle from darkness towards some measure of light.”
Dylan Thomas