Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second. — Robert Frost
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen. –Carl Sandburg
I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors. — Carl Sandburg
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean – Robert Louis Stevenson
*all quotes courtesy of Brainyquote and thinkexist.com*
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