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"Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically."
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"I spent two months on the first draft, working 8 hours a day, five days a week."
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"Write and create a blue sky Forever with joy where I can fly."
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"I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing."
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"A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents."
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"I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase."
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"It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself."
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"Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself."
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"I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority."
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"I'm very involved in the writing on every level."
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"I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste."
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"I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts."
Writing
"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel."
Poems
"Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about."
Energy
"The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity."
Creativity
"The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide."
Woman
"Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically."
Writing
"I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources."
Being
"There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring."
Education
"The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior."
Pleasure
"I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then."
Living
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