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Sharon Olds

"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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."

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Donna Grant

"Doctor Sleep - book (By Stephen King) is the best choice before going to bed!"

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Donna Grant

"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."

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Donna Grant

"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."

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Donna Grant

"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."

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Donna Grant

"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."

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Donna Grant

"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."

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Donna Grant

"A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you."

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Donna Grant

"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out."

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Donna Grant

"I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood."

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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."

Family

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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."

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."

World

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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."

Time

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

Being

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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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