Dream Quote by Kimberly McCreight

One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.

— Anne Sexton

I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband…

— Anne Sexton

Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.

— Joni Mitchell

I shared a bed with my sister, Grace, until I was seventeen years old. She was afraid to sleep alone and would begin asking…

— Lena Dunham

“Anne Sexton knows the mind, Walt Whitman knows grass, but Emily Dickinson knows everything.”

— Matt Haig

I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.…

— Erica Jong

“It was not uncommon to walk in the door of their home and find my mother sitting on the sofa reading over a manuscript…

— Augusten Burroughs

“Life, of course, never gets anyone's entire attention. Death always remains interesting, pulls us, draws us. As sleep is necessary to our physiology, so…

— Janet Malcolm

¢ Your silence has been with me and I have let it have its say. I feel, as always, the same closeness to you…

— Aroha Janet

I definitely notice the absence of character in most poetry, which is not so say that I'm an innovator in that regard. Character-based poems…

— Shane McCrae

I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly…

— Francesca Lia Block

I've always loved the drama and the creating of a role and performance and all that comes with that, but I then also kind…

— Nicole Kidman