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“We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?”

Needs Book Home Challenges Race Modern Poet Murder Suicide Novelists Theme Destroying Milton Melville

Author:Edward Abbey

“As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way to approach something, challenging yourself and never, never trying to write the same book twice.”

Way Writing Trying Book Challenges Poet Approach Painter Novelists Pushing New Ways Push Yourself Challenge Yourself

Book:Conversations with Paul Auster

Source: Conversations with Paul Auster

“The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.”

Challenges Poet

Author:Mary Oliver

“Every poet gets to choose what kind of community he or she serves with the poems, and it's true that there is a community for very difficult, challenging poetry. It's a community that's established itself over the last 80 years, that was originally, in effect, really started by T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. They believed that poetry ought to contain learning, that it ought to rise upon all the learning that went before.”

Kind Difficult Community Challenges Poet Eliot

Author:Ted Kooser

“Despite wanting to work in publishing, I was a publisher's worst nightmare: I rarely bought new books. So my goal was to publish the kind of books I would buy, and read. My reading habits have changed since starting the press. The only other "goal", per say, is to continue to experiment. I don't want the press to ever fall into a formula, or to be pigeonholed - "They do great reissues of modernist poets!" - I want to keep pushing, exploring the kind of title we can get away with. And working with authors who challenge the way I think about writing, editing and reading.”

Thinking Writing Kind Book Fall Reading Goal Challenges Worst Changed Poet Habit Nightmare Get Away Publishing Exploring Publish Reading Habits

Author:Andrew Latimer

“Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.”

Heart Film Challenges Poet Skins Absolutes Foolish Elephants

Author:Mira Nair