"You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight. You either continue to write puerile bilge, or you change. In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice." -- Billy Collins

"Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself." -- Phillip Larkin

“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.” -- Howard Nemerov

"In prologue let me plainly say
I shall not ever come to that discretion where
I do not rage to think I grow decrepit..."

-- John Engels

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"You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight. You either continue to write puerile bilge, or you change. In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice." -- Billy Collins

"Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself." -- Phillip Larkin

“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.” -- Howard Nemerov

"In prologue let me plainly say I shall not ever come to that discretion where I do not rage to think I grow decrepit..."

-- John Engels

"In prologue let me plainly say
I shall not ever come to that discretion where
I do not rage to think I grow decrepit..."