You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

There are no second acts in American lives.

The question we writers are asked most often, the favorite question, is: Why do you write? I write because I have an innate need to write. I write because I ca…

With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not - they cannot at will be excited, with an eye…

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he, for some reason, thinks it would be a good idea to give them.