Mary Oliver Quotes

I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.

Mary Oliver

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When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.

Frances Mayes
- Reading
- Name
- Breathe
When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me paint. I - as I wrote in my novel 'My Name is Red' - watch with amazement what my hand is doing on the paper, what kind of line, what kind of strange, beautiful thing it's doing in spite of my will, so to speak.

Orhan Pamuk
- Writing
- Beautiful
- Hand
You see, I was never a big fan of contemporary movies because they always make actresses and actors look too perfect.

Kate Winslet
- Perfect
- Movies
- Look
Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

Ralph Bakshi
- Good
- Art
- Always
I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'

R. J. Cutler
- Death
- Wife
- Wonder
When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.

Irvine Welsh
- People
- Time
- Writing