Top 37 Quotes by Howard Nemerov

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.

When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.

I have a plot, but not much happens.

I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.

The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.

We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day.

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.

I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.