"I don’t worry anymore about writing. There are……" — Dorianne Laux
"I don’t worry anymore about writing. There are times that I go through dry periods. I never go through a block. I’m always writing, but there are times where I’m just not on my game, and I’ll use that time to read some new poets, go see some art, walk down to the river and just stare at it, or have a conversation with my sister, or whatever—do whatever it is that I do in my life, hoping that I’ll get filled up enough. And something will happen, some juggling will happen and boom."
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Dorianne Laux
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22 Quotes by Dorianne Laux
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You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you…
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A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will…
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We all get habituated, right? You get up in the morning, have your coffee, and read your newspaper, and that’s…
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I love people and psychology. As a writer, I’m not so interested in Fred getting from the living room to…
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You’ve traveled this far on the back of every mistake
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Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode.
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Someone spoke to me last night,/ told me the truth. Just a few words,. but I recognized it./ I knew…
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Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for…
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Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea,…
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Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.
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We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary…
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Writing and reading are the only ways to find your voice. It won't magically burst forth in your poems the…
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Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.
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Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything,…
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I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I…
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I wake up from dreams and go, 'Wow, put this down on paper.' The whole thing is strange. You hear…
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Like I say, I'm always writing and if something sticks, it sticks. I get to write with great songwriters in…
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I'm always writing ideas down and then I stick em in my pocket and put em in that folder so…
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But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
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Poetry is a process of getting back to the unconscious. Hence, I am always writing-even when I'm not facing the…
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I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a…
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It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.
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I'm always writing or playing because that is my life.
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I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note,…
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