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The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.

I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.

Van Morrison

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

Toni Morrison

World

Writing

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

Alanis Morissette

Songs

Writing

Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.

I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.

Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.

Robert Morgan

Parents

Writing

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.