Quotes by Sharon Olds
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We're all taking on too much, we're all asking too much of ourselves. We're all wishing we could do more, and therefore just doing more.
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.
There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.
The teaching is very rewarding, and very time-consuming, and very exhausting. But it's wonderful. The community here at NYU is very precious to me.
I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess.
The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful.
So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!
Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.
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