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The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor Archive Bookshelf Contact Staff Help { Please visit our new website. } Support our online services Contribute now to support our audio archive, daily newsletter, podcast, and other online services »For entries after July 2014, please visit our new website . Browse Poems by: Title Author Date 2014 { 1993 } { 1994 } { 1995 } { 1996 } { 1997 } { 1998 } { 1999 } { 2000 } { 2001 } { 2002 } { 2003 } { 2004 } { 2005 } { 2006 } { 2007 } { 2008 } { 2009 } { 2010 } { 2011 } { 2012 } { 2013 } { 2014 } January 2014 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 February 2014 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 March 2014 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 April 2014 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 May 2014 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 June 2014 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 July 2014 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 « » Writers end up writing stories—or rather, stories’ shadows—and they’re grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can do is ever enough” —Joy Williams I want to live other lives. I’ve never quite believed that one chance is all I get. Writing is my way of making other chances.” —Anne Tyler Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig” —Stephen Greenblatt All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.” —John Edgar Wideman In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.” —Denise Levertov Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.” —E.L. Doctorow Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” —E.L. Doctorow Let’s face it, writing is hell.” —William Styron A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” —Thomas Mann Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials.” —Paul Rudnick Writing is a failure. Writing is not only useless, it’s spoiled paper.” —Padget Powell Writing is very hard work and knowing what you’re doing the whole time.” —Shelby Foote I think all writing is a disease. You can’t stop it.” —William Carlos Williams Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.” —Iris Murdoch The less conscious one is of being ‘a writer,’ the better the writing.” —Pico Iyer Writing is…that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.” —Pico Iyer Writing is my dharma.” —Raja Rao Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.” —Anthony Powell I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act.” —Michael Cunningham Current Faves Learn more about poets featured frequently on the showSelect a Poet: Jacqueline Berger Barbara Hamby Marcus Jackson Marge Piercy Hal Sirowitz Mark Strand © Minnesota Public Radio. All Rights Reserved. | Terms and Conditions | Privacy...