- Graduate Students
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It worries me that undergrads and high school students are forced into books they aren't ready for, like Faulkner's, and then they are afraid of putting their toes in the water again.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
A perfect poem you can't pin down and say, 'This is exactly what it meant to me.' It's not a self-help manual.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
In grammar school I read 'Act One' by Moss Hart, and being a playwright struck me as the most magical and romantic career anyone could have... But I never did write a play.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the youngest; I had two imperious older brothers - I didn't get to often complete sentences at the dinner table. So writing was a way of saying what nobody asked me to say.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the intelligence knows is impossible to have: a lost love, a shelter from life's blows, the return of a time past, even a connection to the dead.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a coastal person. I grew up in Long Island and lived in San Diego. I felt landlocked in Pittsburgh. Psychically, it just wasn't the place for me.
- Followers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I cringe when the discussion leads to, rather than books and sentences and characters and the stuff that writers are supposed to be concerned with, how to have an online presence and how many followers you have on Twitter. That stuff always makes me uncomfortable.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Character is primary. What happens as far as plot and events is not as intriguing to me as what's happening inside this particular person.
- Roots
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time someone asks me where I'm from, I'm not sure how to answer that question... so I say I have no roots.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I make music... and it helps me figure out life.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have complete creative freedom. If I want to put a song on the album, there's no one stopping me.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea - or, if you like, the need - to write and record 'Lash Out' was born of a feeling within me.
- Nov 07, 2020