Great Writing Quotes by Author Marianne Moore

One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one’s happiness to express.

A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.

…baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.

Writing is an undertaking for the modest.

When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

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