"If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster." --Isaac Asimov
"It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up, because by that time I was too famous." --Robert Benchley
"When writers meet, they are truculent, indifferent, or over-polite. Then comes the inevitable moment. A shows B that he has read something of B's. Will B show A? If not, then A hates B; if yes, then all is well." --Cyril Connolly "Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to." --Carl Van Doren
"Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead." --Gene Fowler "I always write a good first line, but I have trouble writing the others." --MoliFre
"What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window." --Burton Rascoe
"Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else." --Gloria Steinem
"I love being a writer; what I can't stand is the paperwork." --Peter De Vries
"This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again." --Oscar Wilde "I will tell you a story." --Jesus (Matthew 21:28, CEV)
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Love it! So glad you've been inspired to do some found poetry!
Love it! So glad you were inspired by the found poetry!
I used to do a fair amount of found poetry in Robert E. Howard's writings. Pretty cool.
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