186 Quotes by Sharon Olds

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    I didn’t have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.

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    I’m not sure that the benefit – as a writer and as a citizen – that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.

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    Well, one thing I’m really interested in, when I’m writing, is being accurate.

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    If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it’s really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.

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    Many poets write books. They’ll tell you: Well, I’ve got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y. This is a wonder to me.

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