"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."

Books, Poems, Poets, Wonder

7

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"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."

Exlpore more Books quotes

"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Books, Open

"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Books, Dignity, Fire, Night

"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."

Stephen King, American Author

Books, Truth, Wisdom, Happiness, Power

"I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Books, Poison, Knowledge, Power

"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Books, Reading, Wisdom, Criticism

"I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part."

Sue Grafton, American Novelist

Books, Formula, Hell, Want

"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."

Bruce Jackson, American Public Servant

Books, Now

"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Books, Metaphysics

"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Books, Leisure, Knowledge, Life

"These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that's important."

Brian P. Cleary, American Author

Books, Kids, Want

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."

Life

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

Being

"At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work."

Time

"So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!"

Drink

"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

"I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me."

Sense

"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

"I was very afraid that I wouldn't be able to do this job well. And the time never came back."

Time

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

Age

"I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself."

World