Andrew Motion
Author: cwq
“If I can carry without spilling whatever it is that drips into my head in the night to my desk, then that’s valuable.”
Andrew Motion
“Contrary to what many of you might imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks–chief among them the unpleasant fact that one is frequently called upon to sit down and write.”
Fran Lebowitz
“I want to live other lives. I’ve never quite believed that one chance is all I get. Writing is my way of making other chances. It’s lucky I do it on paper. Probably I would be schizophrenic — and six times divorced — if I weren’t writing.”
Ann Tyler
“Waiting for inspiration to write is like standing at the airport waiting for a train.”
Leigh Michaels
“In my style, the idea is that it’s more ornate because that’s what consciousness is. To the extent that it hurtles, that it’s circular and hurtling, it’s because that’s how I feel consciousness is, that’s what it’s like to be a person. You don’t have these perfectly transparent, simple thoughts. You have thoughts that are all cluttered up, like overused bookshelves. Do I think there’s content that’s important and even essential in those sentences? Absolutely I do.”
Rick Moody
“I think literature is best when it’s voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
Rick Moody