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Marshall McLuhan Quote: “Far more thought and care go…”

Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

October 28, 2021 1911, Canadian, July 21, Marshall McLuhan, Quotes by Sociologists

Philip Levine Quote: “Now I think poetry will save…”

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it’s the home of the extraordinary, the only home.

October 26, 2021 1928, American, January 10, Philip Levine, Quotes by Poets

Sophie Hannah Quote: “What surprised me most while writing…”

What surprised me most while writing ‘The Monogram Murders’ was that everything I needed seemed to arrive in my head exactly when I needed it.

October 21, 2021 1971, British, Quotes by Poets, Sophie Hannah

Paul Engle Quote: “But maybe it’s up in the…”

But maybe it’s up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it’s never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.

October 19, 2021 1908, American, Paul Engle, Quotes by Poets

Anne Carson Quote: “I do think that something of…”

I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they’re both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that’s almost happening, never quite totally happening.

October 4, 2021 1950, Anne Carson, Canadian, June 21, Quotes by Poets

Jack Prelutsky Quote: “I keep a guitar around while…”

I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it’s fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.

October 3, 2021 1940, American, Jack Prelutsky, Quotes by Poets, September 8

Carolyn Kizer Quote: “I didn’t learn much about writing…”

I didn’t learn much about writing at Sarah Lawrence, but I learned a lot about the sources of poems – dreams, myth, history – from the really great teachers, Joseph Campbell, Charles Trinkhaus, Bert Loewenberg, and a young Australian anthropologist named Harry Hawthorne.

September 25, 2021 1925, American, Carolyn Kizer, December 10, Quotes by Poets

Helen Dunmore Quote: “Writing children’s books gives a writer…”

Writing children’s books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

September 20, 2021 1952, British, December 12, Helen Dunmore, Quotes by Poets

Robert K. Massie Quote: “There are all these things I…”

There are all these things I want to do when I don’t have to finish a book. But I have to keep writing because I keep having children.

September 18, 2021 1929, American, Quotes by Historians, Robert K. Massie

Sophie Hannah Quote: “For me, a big part of…”

For me, a big part of writing psychological thrillers is choosing crimes committed for motives which would only apply to a particular person in a particular situation; a unique, one-off motive that is born out of someone’s particular range of psychological afflictions.

September 13, 2021 1971, British, Quotes by Poets, Sophie Hannah

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