top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Being quotes
"The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat."
"Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being."
"I've always been more afraid of being left alone or left out than of things that go bump in the night."
"I'm excited about being an owner, it's got my competitive juices going. I'm scared, but excited as well."
"I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it."
"If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined."
"A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the Sardinian Parliament at Turin, seven being its fair share, calculated according to the population of the various cities and districts of the Sardinian kingdom."
Explore more quotes by Sharon Olds
"Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in."
"I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression."
"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."
"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."
"Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y. This is a wonder to me."
bottom of page