"I never write exercises, but sometimes I write poems which fail and call them exercises."
-Robert Frost

"English doesn't borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over, and goes through their pockets for loose grammar."
-Unknown

"A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman."
-Wallace Stevens

"To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession."
- Robert Graves

"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet / Are of imagination all compact."
-William Shakespeare

"It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly."
--C. J. Cherryh

"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs."
--John Osborne

"I have rewritten--often several times--every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers."
--Vladmir Nabokov

"Any man who will look into his heart and honestly write what he sees there will find plenty of readers." Edgar W. House.

"Reading and weeping opens the door to one's heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one's soul." - M.K. Simmons

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work." - Stephen King

Gene Fowler