Mark Strand Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• It's very hard to write humor.

  Mark Strand

  Writing, Humor, Hard

  "In the Presence of America: A Conversation with Mark Strand". Interview with Katharine Coles, weberstudies.weber.edu. 1992.

• A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.

  Mark Strand

  Writing, Thinking, People

• Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

  Mark Strand

  Writing, Creative, Program

  "In the Presence of America: A Conversation with Mark Strand". Interview with Katharine Coles, www.weber.edu. 1992.

• The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.

  Mark Strand

  Writing, Numbers, People

• There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

  Mark Strand

  Writing, Would Be, Want

  Interview with Katharine Coles, weberstudies.weber.edu. 1992.

• Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.

  Mark Strand

  Writing, Attention, Prove

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