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Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.

Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.

Iris Dement

Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me.

Mary Wesley

Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real space, in three dimensions, in flesh and blood. I realized I had been trying to cram all this narrative into my paintings, but ultimately painting was a static medium. So it just opened up this whole new door.

Beau Willimon

Writing poems is a chance to construct spaces that I want to imaginatively inhabit.

Writing poems is a chance to construct spaces that I want to imaginatively inhabit.

Mary Szybist

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

Edward Hirsch

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

Ishmael Reed

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.

Helen Dunmore

Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world I lived in.

Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world I lived in.

Grace Paley

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I've never been happier.

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I've never been happier.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.

Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.

Jayne Anne Phillips

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