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“Give up sitting dutifully at your desk. Leave your house or apartment. Go out into the world. It's all right to carry a notebook but a cheap one is best, with pages the color of weak tea and on the front a kitten or a space ship.”

World Writing Poetry Adventure Poem Living Writers Outing Notebooks

Book:Fever: poems

Source: Fever: poems

“The guys can't take their eyes off Colleen... one of them... probably sees her just like I do, she's the gatekeeper to another world.”

Young Adult Admiration Infatuation Puppy Love Teenage Life

Book:Now Playing: Stoner & Spaz II

Source: Now Playing: Stoner & Spaz II

“OMG. He's a gift shop, a lamb kebab with mint,/a solar panel poetry machine with biceps. He's the path/through the dark woods, the light on the page, a postcard/from the castle and a one-way ticket there. He's the most/astounding arrangement of molecules ever!/Just look at those tights! An honest-to-God prince at last.”

Humor Infatuation Fairy Tales Retellings

Book:Lies, Knives, and Girls in Red Dresses

Source: Lies, Knives, and Girls in Red Dresses

“That's why babies cry so much. All of a sudden having a body is a lot to deal with.”

Book:Coaltown Jesus

Source: Coaltown Jesus

“Avoid any enclosed space where more than three people are wearing turtlenecks.”

Poetry Poem Turtlenecks

Author:Ron Koertge

“No wonder I want to be Robert Mitchum: big, strong, super-cool, with those Freon eyes of his. That's who I was pretending to be a minute ago - Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past. - Ben”

Inspiration Dreams Young Adult Ya Teen Ya Fiction Film Star Robert Mitchum

Book:Now Playing: Stoner & Spaz II

Source: Now Playing: Stoner & Spaz II

“I'm not a big fan of inspiration. I'm too old to sit and wait for the muse to give me a little kiss... I write a lot, and I'm not afraid to make mistakes or to write badly. I can alsways fix something weak and dull. But I can't fix a blank page.”

Writing Inspiration

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