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Sharon Olds

"The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time."

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"The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time."

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"Well, "The Wellspring" was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience."
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"I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself."
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"It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it."
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"At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work."
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"I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think."
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"I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type."
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"I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere."
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"When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time."
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"My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience."
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"So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!"
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