A poem is an exploration not a working out of a theme.
- Robert Penn Warren
A writer keeps surprising himself.... He doesn't know what he is saying until he sees it on the page.
- Thomas Williams
The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then to discover what you have done.
- Flannery O'Connor
The language leads, and we continue to follow where it leads.
- Wright Morris
One writes a novel in order to know why one writes it.
- Alberto Moravia
One writes a novel in order to know why one writes it.
- Alberto Moravia
Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery.
- Henry Miller
The easiest way for me to lose interest is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.
- William Matthews
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
- Bernard Malamud
We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
- C. Day Lewis
A POETRY COMMUNITY
POEMS