#written

If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived in vain. Great poets might expect the whole body of their work, but most of us - well, I would settle for a handful. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#die #feel #hadn #i #lived

There are plenty of examples of people who have had busy lives out there in the world, trying to do good, and written very well at the same time. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#examples #good #had #lives #out

It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#column #dear #got #i #nothing

'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award. ↗

— Bill Murray

#academy award #award #day #even #ever

I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to journals again in a year or so... that's about it. ↗

— George Murray

#again #am #few #i #i am

If pushed, though, I'd say that the next stage will be reached when it it's no longer true that about 75% of the best games were written in 1980's on the way to that. ↗

— Graham Nelson

#best #games #i #longer #next

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#his #i #i love #love #only

I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#by the time #could #feel #fiction #fiction writers

Well, "The Wellspring" was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#beginning #experience #had #in the beginning #others

There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services. ↗

— Sean Parker

#contracts #get #happening #lot #paid