Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.
A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.
Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.
[On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.
Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.
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