Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
Captain Harvile: I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which did not have something to say on women's fickleness. Anne Elliot: But they were all written by men.
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Writers can redeem a wasted day in two minutes; alas this knowledge leads them to waste their day like no one else.
She dealt her pretty words like blades, As glittering they shone, And every one unbared a nerve Or wantoned with a bone.
Interviewer: What, then, would you say is the source of most of your work? Parker: Need of money, dear.
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.