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I've always been a very prolific writer. ↗

— Nanci Griffith

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I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

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I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant. ↗

— John Barton

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To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that. ↗

— John Barton

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For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

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The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works. ↗

— Ann Beattie

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I write emotional music. ↗

— Les Baxter

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It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan. ↗

— Richard Curtis

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I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

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