67 Quotes by Andrew Motion

I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.

He was a man of immense charm, affability and kindness with no side to him.

I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.

It is extremely desolating news that he should have died when he was only 68 and always seemed so much younger,

I'm ensuring my place in heaven.

I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.

Jenni Fagan is the real thing, and The Panopticon is a real treat: maturely alive to the pains of maturing, and cleverly amused as well as appalled by what it finds in the world.

Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril