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Writing Quotes by Marilyn Hacker
- Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
- Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory…
- I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have…
- There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the…
- I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to…
- I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching…
- Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself,…
- The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should…
- The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.
- Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov