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Sharon Olds

"If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting."

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"If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting."

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Donna Grant

"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

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Donna Grant

"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."

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Donna Grant

"For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator."

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Donna Grant

"Imagination is a glorious wonder."

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Donna Grant

"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."

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Donna Grant

"I want to paint the rest of my days with the best colors."

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Donna Grant

"It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic."

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Donna Grant

"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."

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Donna Grant

"I earn the magic of words by writing.I learn the myth of worlds by imagining."

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Donna Grant

"The imaginative is produced by the human mind as it tries to respond to something greater than itself, struggling to find images adequate to the reality."

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Sharon Olds
"The decision for me was whether to have "The Father" be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else."

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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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Sharon Olds
"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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Sharon Olds
"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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Sharon Olds
"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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Sharon Olds
"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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Sharon Olds
"This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force."

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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."

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Sharon Olds
"Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me."

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Sharon Olds
"I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think."

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