Accounts Quote by Rebecca West

My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new…

— Anonymous

All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time.

— Robert Penn Warren

I guess my poems feel to me a bit like they are doing something in relation to experience, i.e. time.

— Matthew Zapruder

I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.

— Isabel Allende

Whatever your writing is about, you're really connected with it, and you can always go back to when that was. I remember everything, and…

— Sharon Van Etten

It's not easy to craft a novel that gradually erodes the reader's comprehension of the world, of reality and identity and the passage of…

— Laura van den Berg

The Time that Remains is a way of interpreting a certain ambience or emotion. These are the stories that my father told me over…

— Elia Suleiman

“Through learning at my later date things I hadn't known, or had escaped or possibly feared realizing, about my parents - and myself -…

— Eudora Welty

As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use…

— Ayelet Waldman

There's something about the kind of time travel that a poem can provide. It can take you to somewhere else - a culture far…

— Kevin Young

This experience of getting so lost in my writing that I lose track of time, or of anything outside the imagined world, is a…

— David Ignatius

Novels can be a snapshot of a moment in time, or several moments in time, and as a reader, that's what I really like,…

— Meg Wolitzer