Sharon Olds

A family is a mystery. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#family

let’s part equals, as we were in every bed, pure equals of the earth ↗

— Sharon Olds

#equality

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

— Sharon Olds

#down #i #look #sit #time

I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#i #i think #important #me #senses

I was very afraid that I wouldn't be able to do this job well. And the time never came back. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#afraid #back #came #i #job

I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#distance #i #i wish #more #myself

I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#i #know #out #people #probably

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. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#citizen #day #depression #every #every day

It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#bad #bad thing #going #i #know

I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#by the time #could #feel #fiction #fiction writers