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I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.


Mark Haddon


#exotic #foreign #i #i think #interesting

The first fact of the world is that it repeats itself. I had been taught to believe that the freshness of children lay in their capacity for wonder at the vividness and strangeness of the particular, but what is fresh in them is that they still experience the power of repetition, from which our first sense of the power of mastery comes. Though predictable is an ugly little world in daily life, in our first experience of it we are clued to the hope of a shapeliness in things. To see that power working on adults, you have to catch them out: the look of foolish happiness on the faces of people who have just sat down to dinner is their knowledge that dinner will be served. Probably, that is the psychological basis for the power and the necessity of artistic form...Maybe our first experience of form is the experience of our own formation...And I am not thinking mainly of poems about form; I’m thinking of the form of a poem, the shape of its understanding. The presence of that shaping constitutes the presence of poetry.


Robert Hass


#poetry #writers-on-writing #experience

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.


Carol Ann Duffy


#i #i think #i write #lot #memorable

I would rather have bad things written about me than be forgotten.


Pamela Harriman


#bad #forgotten #i #me #rather

A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.


James Harrington


#army #cannon #cold #cold iron #earth

If Al Gore had allowed us and if the Florida Supreme Court had not intervened and rewritten the law, which they're not supposed to do, we could have certified, which is a mere procedural action, and then after that, they could have petitioned any justice for a recount statewide with uniform standards.


Katherine Harris


#after #al #al gore #allowed #any

I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines.


Neil Patrick Harris


#deliver #felt #green #i #instead

Each one of us had a little story to tell and each recording was based on that. Lou played all of the music but we both sort of kicked around some cords during the writing phase.


Phil Harris


#based #both #cords #during #each

I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was a bit self-conscious about writing lyrics too.


Jerry Harrison


#bit #fine #i #i think #lot

The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling.


Jim Harrison


#acknowledged #calling #day #had #house






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