Conscious Quote by Marianne Moore

I'm always conscious of what I'm writing, conscious of what the actor may ask me. I have a defense for nearly every line in…

— Stephen Sondheim

What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros…

— Erica Jong

The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.

— Dannie Abse

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

— Ralph Peters

“Looking at the sky, he suddenly saw that it had become black. Then white again, but with great rippling circles. The circles were vultures…

— J.M.G. Le Clézio

“I wasn't writing home. I wasn't writing a death letter, either. I was writing a death journal, a piece of fiction meant for my…

— Clint Van Winkle

In a way all writers are writing against death, because writing is an attempt to defy the passage of time, to refuse to let…

— Elif Batuman

I think those women who get themselves to write essays, it's not an easy thing to do because as women, you're not encouraged to…

— Lynne Tillman

I'm always conscious when I'm writing a story that the women in my books need to save themselves. They don't need to be scooped…

— Karin Slaughter

I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process.

— St. Lucia

I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process. I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind - at least…

— St. Lucia

When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw…

— Anne Lamott

I'm not that conscious of my writing, so pacing the lyrics doesn't really enter the picture.

— Dan Bejar

Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the…

— Anne Lamott

Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at…

— Mark Twain