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> [The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being obsessive, being reckless - for these, suddenly, I am being praised.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/selima-hill/the-very-things-i-used-to-be-told-off-for-daydreaming-exaggerating/)

[Selima Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/selima-hill/)

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## More by Selima Hill

> [What am I writing for anyway? Is it like dreaming? Is it a benevolent process? Something that moves the past forward? And what about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/selima-hill/what-am-i-writing-for-anyway-is-it-like-dreaming-is-it-a-benevolent/)

[Selima Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/selima-hill/)

> [When I was first published it was like having people rushing in coming to find out where I was hiding. Scary!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/selima-hill/when-i-was-first-published-it-was-like-having-people-rushing-in/)

[Selima Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/selima-hill/)

> [There's the space that you soar into, the space that you sometimes break through to, and hang in. A sort of gasp or gap.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/selima-hill/there-s-the-space-that-you-soar-into-the-space-that-you-sometimes/)

[Selima Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/selima-hill/)

> [I feel much safer faced with a blank sheet of paper than I do with a real person.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/selima-hill/i-feel-much-safer-faced-with-a-blank-sheet-of-paper-than-i-do-with-a/)

[Selima Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/selima-hill/)

> [I step naked into the shower of truth - whole-hearted, bloody-minded, utterly selfish, no longer even pretending to enjoy or understand anything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/selima-hill/i-step-naked-into-the-shower-of-truth-whole-hearted-bloody-minded/)

[Selima Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/selima-hill/)

> [An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/selima-hill/an-audience-sabotages-my-freedom-devastates-my-innocence-corrupts-my/)

[Selima Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/selima-hill/)

> [I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/selima-hill/i-m-not-so-sure-that-the-value-of-art-is-all-it-is-cracked-up-to-be/)

[Selima Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/selima-hill/)

> [I like to think that I'm giving a voice to the silenced...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/selima-hill/i-like-to-think-that-i-m-giving-a-voice-to-the-silenced/)

[Selima Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/selima-hill/)

> [All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to face.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/selima-hill/all-i-do-and-say-and-think-as-a-poet-is-much-truer-and-more-intimate/)

[Selima Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/selima-hill/)

> [Poetry is a big space and I love it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/selima-hill/poetry-is-a-big-space-and-i-love-it/)

[Selima Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/selima-hill/)

> [If I knew how to say it directly, I would not need to write poetry. I would just talk to people and be happy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/selima-hill/if-i-knew-how-to-say-it-directly-i-would-not-need-to-write-poetry-i/)

[Selima Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/selima-hill/)

> [The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being obsessive, being reckless -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/selima-hill/the-very-things-i-used-to-be-told-off-for-daydreaming-exaggerating/)

[Selima Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/selima-hill/)

> [Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only 10 per…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/selima-hill/being-a-poet-is-like-having-an-invisible-partner-it-isn-t-easy-but/)

[Selima Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/selima-hill/)

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