top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"Writing. Is it a way to be remembered,or a need to become immortal?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets."
Author Name
Personal Development
"And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In the middle section of the book Mirabelle breaks into not one, but two houses near Belgravia Books. I had fun scoping these out - checking which windows looked least secure and figuring out how to scale the mews houses to the rear to get her inside. A man came out at one point, 'What are you doing?' he questioned me. 'The thing is, I'm writing a book,' I started with a smile. He waved me off, his hand as wide as a tennis racket. 'Everyone is writing a book, my dear,' he said. Between you and I, it's his house that MIrabelle ends up breaking into."
Author Name
Personal Development
"One idea to a sentence is still the best advice that anyone has ever given on writing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is the most fun I'm ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. I mean, there's nothing in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I'm so very bad at it. It's the greatest peace when I'm in a scene, and it's just me and the character, that's it, that's where I want to live my life."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The purpose of a writer is to show the beauty and tragedy of life in the reader's own mirror."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading."
Reading
"I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way."
Work
"As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery."
Art
"I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early."
Friendship
"I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up."
Writing
"Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help."
Poetry
"I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex."
Sex
"I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home."
Home
"There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply."
Poetry
"It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!"
Time
bottom of page