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Matt de la Pena has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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My chest got this weird feeling, like when you stare into the eyes of a little baby and the baby looks back…
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The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this…
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I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn to this…
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I guess I don't really know what I want to do, either. Sometimes I feel like a shook-up bottle of soda. Like,…
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When I'm following what a character does in a book I don't have to think about my own life. Where I am.…
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But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this adventure right…
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People always think there's this huge hundred-foot-high barrier that separates doing good from doing bad. But there's not. There's nothing. There's not…
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But mostly I remember every morning before school. How she'd say "Hey, honey!" just I was walking out the apartment door. And…
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Once I got into college, I discovered literature - in particular, multicultural literature. I just started to understand the power of story…
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When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as…
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In all of my books, I really want to work with working-class people. My goal is to show the moments of grace…
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I used to be so angry about the kids that had stuff. Like the kids that had cars, the kids that had…
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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
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If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
— Sherman Alexie
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When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like…
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I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was…
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I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.
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My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God…
— Thomas Merton
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What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring…
— N. T. Wright
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The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from…
— Mark Strand
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I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.
— Kevin Powers
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While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period…
— Paul Auster
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Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.
— Jack Nicholson
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Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.
— Jill Scott
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