21 Quotes by Cate Marvin

The cool thing about having a book is that it takes on its own life. Once it’s in the world, you can’t follow it. You’d have to have a pretty fantastic surveillance system to track its migration.

Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems.

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.