Brian Jacques Quotes

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.

I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.

The temple of art is built in words.

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical. That's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension.

Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll let my journal grow just like the mind does, just like a tree or beast does, just like life does. Why should a book tell a tale in a dull straight line? Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.

You become a great writer by writing.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of truth-telling, self-expression and homage to the twin miracles of creation and consciousness.

I write novels and other things.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.

And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

I developed a definition - which I think becomes less and less accurate as poetry moves into the world - that poetry was a way of speaking to the world, but fiction was a way to get the world to speak to me.