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Sharon Olds Quotes
At one point I took on a new job, and I just didnt have time to do anything but work. - Sharon Olds Quotes
Because a poem is not written while running or while answering the phone. Its written in whatever minutes one has. Sometimes you have half an hour. - Sharon Olds Quotes
Every poet I know - although there may be some I dont know who lead very different lives, who maybe live in the country and dont teach - tends to be just like the rest of us: just really busy, really overcommitted. - Sharon Olds Quotes
Everyone is so different. I sometimes wish I wrote in a different way. You know, that feeling of: So-and-so writes slowly, if only I wrote slowly. - Sharon Olds Quotes
I didnt have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type. - Sharon Olds Quotes
I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess. - Sharon Olds Quotes
I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that its a poem, its almost written in my head somewhere. - Sharon Olds Quotes
I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me. - Sharon Olds Quotes
I was very afraid that I wouldnt be able to do this job well. And the time never came back. - Sharon Olds Quotes
I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself. - Sharon Olds Quotes
Im not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression. - Sharon Olds Quotes
Im probably so out of it at my age that I dont know what people think. - Sharon Olds Quotes
If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but its really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting. - Sharon Olds Quotes
It might be a bad thing, not to know whats going on in the world. I cant say I really approve of it. - Sharon Olds Quotes
Many poets write books. Theyll tell you: Well, Ive got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y. This is a wonder to me. - Sharon Olds Quotes
Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in. - Sharon Olds Quotes
My poems - I dont even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience. - Sharon Olds Quotes
So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I havent managed that with drinking! - Sharon Olds Quotes
The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages horrors at the same time. - Sharon Olds Quotes
The decision for me was whether to have The Father be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else. - Sharon Olds Quotes
The fact that there was a lot of anger and sorrow and a sense of connection to destructive feelings in The Father doesnt bother me. - Sharon Olds Quotes
The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful... - Sharon Olds Quotes
The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful. - Sharon Olds Quotes
The teaching is very rewarding, and very time-consuming, and very exhausting. But its wonderful. The community here at NYU is very precious to me. - Sharon Olds Quotes
Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. Its not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me. - Sharon Olds Quotes
There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die. - Sharon Olds Quotes
This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force. - Sharon Olds Quotes
To me, the mind seems to be spread out in the whole body - the senses are part of the brain. I guess theyre not where the thinking is done. - Sharon Olds Quotes
Were all taking on too much, were all asking too much of ourselves. Were all wishing we could do more, and therefore just doing more. - Sharon Olds Quotes
Well, The Wellspring was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others experience. - Sharon Olds Quotes
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