#think

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

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

— Sharon Olds

#i #i think #important #me #senses

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

Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#aware #breathe #dance #deeply #i

God, why do I give interviews to 'the Guardian'? They always try to dissect you, and I don't really think about stuff in the way that you're asking me these questions. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#always #asking #dissect #give #god

I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#bit #contact #fire #having #humans

Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#bit #done #great #i #like

I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#consider #get #i #just #kind

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#begins #duty #feelings #i #i love

I think I've always been fine on stage - though I get nervous beforehand. But once I'm on stage, all of that goes out of the window. ↗

— Rita Ora

#been #beforehand #fine #get #goes