Quotes by Writing To think of writing poetry as a "career" is not only ridiculous, it's dangerous. To the imagination. To the way one thinks of art. The reason poetry as a genre is so special is because it cannot be made a commodity. Cate Marvin writingartthinking I do believe that one's writing life needs to be kept separate from Po-Biz. Personally, I deal with this by not attending too many poetry readings, primarily reading dead poets or poems in translation, reading Poets & Writers only once for grant/contest information before I quickly dispose of it, and not reading Poetry Daily. Ever. Cate Marvin readingwritingbelieve I prefer poems that occupy an imaginative sphere. When I lived in Cincinnati, I was occasionally referred to as an "Ohio Poet;" this made me uneasy, not only because I think of myself as a generally American poet but also because I like to think I write out of the country of my own mind. Cate Marvin writingcountrythinking I love teaching poetry writing. Students come into the class thinking poetry has to be one way, then leave having created pieces that are wholly original, that have - quite literally - never been made before. Cate Marvin teachingwritingthinking Because I wake up late, my day is often short. I'm much more active in the evenings, during which I alternately read, write, needle-point, smoke, email, and despair over my decision last June to put my television and DVD player out on the street because I wasn't getting enough work done. Cate Marvin juneplayerwriting If I were to write the story of my life, I would shock the world. Caterina Sforza storieswritingworld Could I write all, the world would turn to stone. Caterina Sforza stoneswritingworld As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right. Catharine Beecher writingtalkingpeople I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to - no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve! Catharine Sedgwick edenwritingchildren Helen Lowe writes wonderful stories, yes, but her work also speaks with lyricism to deeper questions of how we treat each other. With lovely prose that brings vivid life to her characters, she creates a universe with people we care about. This is an author with a gift for fantasy. Catherine Asaro writingcharacterpeople When you write, you're supposed to go stand somewhere else for a while, see things from a perspective that's not in line with your own reflexive truths. Catherine Brady perspectivesomewhere-elsewriting When I decided to stop using quotation marks, it presented technical challenges: you have to conceive of dialogue differently and structure it differently for this to work. So I had a new problem, which makes writing interesting again. Catherine Brady challengeswritinginteresting I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits or my fear that I don't have much to say. Catherine Brady arbitrarywritingpast What I've found as I have kept writing stories is that more and more your way is barred. I feel really choked by what I already know how to do, by the fact that my obsessions nearly always mount a sneak attack, so that I find myself writing another version of the same thing. Catherine Brady storieswritingway It's hard to write sex because it's hard to write desire, period. Catherine Brady desirewritingsex I think [Albert Camus] wanted to write something to explain who he was, and how he was different from the age that had been conferred upon him. Catherine Camus agewritingthinking We can't talk about the book [Albert Camus] wanted to write because we have barely its beginnings. He had written hardly any of it, but he needed to write it. It seems to me that if you look at the style of The First Man it conforms much more to who he was as a man, it resembles him very closely. Catherine Camus writingmenbook [Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him. Catherine Camus influenceartistwriting The First Man is [Albert Camus] posthumous last work. But in fact, in a certain way, it is his first, because in it you find the signs of his commitments, and of the whole way of writing as well. This mixture of austerity and sensuality, the will to speak for those not able to speak for themselves. Catherine Camus mixtureswritingcommitment [Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher. Catherine Camus acceptancewritingteacher«205206207208209210211212213214215»
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