#mos

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#english #find #first #foremost #i

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#fairies #gifts #good #good and bad #i

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#anything #become #charged #free #friends

The sun is the most parallel light source because it is so far away. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#because #far #far away #light #most

The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#advertise #anybody #elite #forces #go

Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#between #book #children #difference #even

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#did #fiction #forgotten #great #great deal

I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#contrary #fiction #functions #genre #i

I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#around #certain #certain extent #extent #feel

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#crossing #good #good writing #most #out