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Quote by Anne Sexton

“I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves.”

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Anne Sexton was an American poet known for her confessional and autobiographical poetry. Her works delved deeply into personal pain, family relationships, and social issues, profoundly influencing 20th-century poetry. more

“Writing itself is one of the great, free human activities. There is scope for individuality, and elation, and discovery. In writing, for the person who follows with trust and forgiveness what occurs to him, the world remains always ready and deep, an inexhaustible environment, with the combined vividness of an actuality and flexibility of a dream. Working back and forth between experience and thought, writers have more than space and time can offer. They have the whole unexplored realm of human vision.”

“My question is "when did other people give up the idea of being a poet?" You know, when we are kids we make up things, we write, and for me the puzzle is not that some people are still writing, the real question is why did the other people stop?”

People Knows Giving Writing Stills Ideas Real Kids Poet Giving Up Puzzles Real Questions

Book:Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer's Vocation

Source: Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer's Vocation

“There are a lot of other things besides nouns.”

Nouns

Author:Gertrude Stein

“Writing's deeper function is to serve as a way to find shapes and names for the world as you have come to know it; to find on paper what you know and feel.”

Knows World Way Feels Writing Names Shapes Paper Function Deeper

Book:Writing Your Way

Source: Writing Your Way

“If it were a rainy day, a drunken vigil, a fit of the spleen, a course of physic, sleepy Sunday, an ill run at dice, a long tailor's bill, a beggar's purse, a factious head, a hot sun, costive diet, want of books, and a just contempt for learning - but for these. . .the number of authors and of writing would dwindle away to a degree most woeful to behold.”

Ifs Want Writing Long Book Running Courses Numbers Sun Fit Degrees Hot Bills Ill Diets Sunday Contempt Beggar Purses Rainy Rainy Day Dice Sleepy Tailors Spleen Hot Sun

Author:Jonathan Swift

“What I like to do is treat words as a craftsman does his wood or stone or what-have-you, to hew, carve, mold, coil, polish, and plane them into patterns, sequences, sculptures, fugues of sound expressing some lyrical impulse, some spiritual doubt or conviction, some dimly realized truth I must try to reach and realize.”

Trying Doe Spiritual Sound Realizing Doubt Stones Treats Patterns Conviction Woods Impulse Planes Sculpture Sequence Polish Mold Lyrical Craftsman Fugue

Author:Dylan Thomas

“Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting one. Then, as you try to perfect it, it ceases to be new and interesting, and loses the freshness with which it first occurred to you. You're spoiling it.”

Trying Firsts Ideas Loses Perfect Interesting Too Much Limits Cease Spoil New Thought Freshness

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“I used my daughter's crayons for each main character. One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story, and the other end was the end, and then there was all that middle part, which was the middle.”

Ends Character Stories Used Middle Daughter My Daughter Main Characters Crayon

Book:Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

Source: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

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