If I’ve done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer. Mary Oliver Read Quote
I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write. Mary Oliver Read Quote
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 Read Quote
To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it. Mary Oliver Read Quote
I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn’t think of it as a career. I didn’t even think of it as a profession… It was the most exciting thing, the most powerful thing, the most wonderful thing to do with my life. Mary Oliver Read Quote
My parents didn’t care very much what I did, and that was probably a blessing. Mary Oliver Read Quote
