22 Quotes by Dana Goodyear

For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.

Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.

Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.

Los Angeles is a good city in which to be a reporter. Always entertaining, always an incubator.

My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.

There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.

Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.

Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of every background. In that way, we see the growing up of the American food scene: that it's okay to be a regular person and be really into food.

I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.